“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
BBC
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Textual Production | Stevie Smith | SS
was interviewed by Derek Hart
for the BBC
Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet. |
Textual Production | Jane Gardam | This book was adapted as a serial on the BBC
radio programme Woman's Hour. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | It began as an idea floated to the BBC
in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the... |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | BBC One
broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 245 “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Her radio broadcast for the BBC
on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech. |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | |
Textual Production | Joan Riley | JR
gives readings from writing in progress, in schools and at conferences. Her work has been dramatised for radio and television as well as widely anthologised. Her short stories have appeared in Storia I... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | After the completion of the tetralogy, a television series was made from the novels, though the BBC
cut back from the first proposal of six episodes per book, to six from each of the first... |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | NA
says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith
's White Teeth, Monica Ali
's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson
's Oranges... |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC
had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC
: on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research. 34: 261 |
Textual Production | Teresa Deevy | This reached print the year after it was performed, in the Dublin Magazine. It played in Cork in 1939, opening on 6 November. A television film made from it was broadcast by the BBC |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | The collection, dedicated to JK
's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books
in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover. Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books. prelims Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books. back cover |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome |
Timeline
21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...
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21 June 1969
Queen Elizabeth II
and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC
unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...
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5 November 1974
1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...
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1976
Angela Rippon
became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC
); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.
By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...
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By 11 October 1976
More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC
.
28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...
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28 February 1977
16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...
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16 August 1979
1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...
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1980
Shirley Gee
's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC
's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...
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16 October 1987
In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...
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24 May 1988
The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...
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1991
The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC
, ceased publication.
22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...
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22 April 1993
Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence
, and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
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16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...
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20 June 2006
The BBC
cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
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