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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International production (1990) adapted...
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...
Textual Production Selima Hill
SH reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong 's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.
Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...
Textual Production Diana Athill
DA 's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
Over the course of her career SD has become much involved in radio drama. From once believing that only sad bastards listen to BBC Radio 4 , she has progressed to becoming a regular contributor...
Textual Production E. M. Forster
In 2008 two separate collections appeared of uncollected essays and broadcasts by Forster: The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-60: A Selected Edition, edited by Mary Lago and others, and The Creator as...
Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
Hacker was dramatized for BBC radio .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...

Timeline

15 October 1951: BBC television broadcast its first live election...

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15 October 1951

BBC television broadcast its first live election address, given by Lord Samuel .

15 February 1952: The funeral of King George VI was aired on...

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15 February 1952

The funeral of King George VI was aired on both BBC television and radio.

8 July 1952: The BBC broadcast its first public transmission...

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8 July 1952

The BBC broadcast its first public transmission of television from Paris, using French equipment.

6 February 1953: Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during...

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6 February 1953

Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during Gluck 's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden ; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.

16 April 1953: R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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16 April 1953

R. A. Butler , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on BBC television.

2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...

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2 June 1953

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC 's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.

15 June 1953: BBC television made its first broadcast from...

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15 June 1953

BBC television made its first broadcast from a ship at sea, during a Royal Naval Review.

1 November 1953: The BBC made its first television broadcast...

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1 November 1953

The BBC made its first television broadcast of Anglican Holy Communion.

7 October 1954: The BBC aired its first television coverage...

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7 October 1954

The BBC aired its first television coverage of an annual Party Conference (that of the Conservatives, held in Blackpool).

December 1954: Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, intervened...

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December 1954

Winston Churchill , as Prime Minister, intervened to block a planned BBC programme (with a woman producer) about the prospect of the H-bomb and the effects of fallout.

23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hittingradio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.

13 April 1955: The BBC television show For Deaf Children...

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13 April 1955

The BBC television show For Deaf Children was first aired.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

28 March 1956: The BBC's Crystal Palace television station...

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28 March 1956

The BBC 's Crystal Palace television station was opened.

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