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UM began a series of radio broadcasts from BBCLondon intended to boost the morale of West Indian troops.

The tithe campaign, which ran down with the onset of the Second World War, was recalled in a BBC programme in the series Yesterday's Witness in May 1972, written by Janet Hitchman , in which...

As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

After 1924, EMF turned from writing novels to social and political causes, in particular the issue of freedom of expression. In 1928 he campaigned against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness...

The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television...

VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...

RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...

EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...

DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...

It was rejected that August as a possible television play for the BBC . A successful revival took place in spring 2007 at Trafalgar Studios , London.

The BBC filmed five Wimsey novels (set in the 1920s) with Ian Carmichael playing the sleuth, then added the three Harriet Vane mysteries, set in the 1930s.

CM 's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le...

Alan Pryce-Jones , editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS for a middle page on Mary Shelley before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC Third Programme...