BBC

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Carol Ann Duffy
The BBC broadcast CAD 's radio play Loss.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
ix
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's cycle of plays on the life of Christ, The Man Born to be King, was broadcast on the BBC .
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan.
102
Performance of text Harold Pinter
This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall
Performance of text Hilary Mantel
HM 's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4 's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
The plays were heard on BBC radio in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Richmal Crompton
The BBC filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC 's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre in Fulham.
“William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy.
Performance of text Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's poem Battlefield appeared in the Listener after having been read aloud on BBC wireless, or radio.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
42n3
Performance of text E. J. Scovell
This volume, titled from the space that gives depth to a landscape,
Scovell, E. J. The Space Between. Secker and Warburg.
70
reprints poems from three anthologies (Ten Oxford Poets, 1977, New Poems: 1961, and The Guinness Book of Poetry...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli and Castiglione with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright for BBC Radio 3
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's radio play The Ants was aired on the BBC .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
113
Performance of text Shena Mackay
Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3 in 1982.
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin.
vii, viii
The volume appeared in paperback from Abacus in 1984.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Performance of text Daisy Ashford
In July 1919, DA did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour...
Performance of text Philip Larkin
Still struggling, PL published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...
Performance of text Margiad Evans
ME 's talk on epilepsy was broadcast in the Silver Lining series on the BBC Light Programme.
Dearnley, Moira. Margiad Evans. University of Wales Press.
61, 76
Performance of text Harold Pinter
A recording of this sketch was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 the following day. It appeared in print in Harold Pinter Plays 4, 2012.
“Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights.

Timeline

May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

Writing climate item

May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

Building item

Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

Writing climate item

6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.