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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 | |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | |
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 | |
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 | |
Textual Production | Shelagh Delaney | |
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.
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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