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This was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four classic serial.

FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...

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...

Some of these poems had already appeared in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review and Lines Review. Some had already been aired on Poetry Now, a BBC radio programme. In 1994 CB

In a positive review for BBC Radio Ulster, Sean Rafferty identified this work not only as autobiography and literary criticism, but also as a piece of travel-writing: I expected a critical academic tome. What I...

In 1997 the BBC and the Arts Council commissioned CB to produce Writing on Skins, in which she explores writing on vellum, in collaboration with artist Denis Brown , for the Write Out Loud...

Dorothy Sayers invited AC to contribute a segment to a BBC radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen.

AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.

AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...

The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...

Another interview, given on 25 November 1962, concerned the tenth anniversary of The Mousetrap on stage. She said she was amazed and delighted by the success of her play. The BBC has preserved these two...

In the early twenty-first century Penguin Putnam had around sixty AC titles in print. The BBC issued VHS and in some case DVD sets of series of her works featuring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple...

CC 's radio play The Ants was aired on the BBC .

While CC was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay , who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the...

Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio. Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...