BBC

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Employer Antonia White
AW worked for the BBC . At the end of this time she was sacked on grounds of her visible disgust with its routine of death & stagnation.
qtd. in
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
275
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
250, 275
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes.
Employer Elspeth Huxley
After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of...
Employer Monica Furlong
She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex ). She was taken on as secretary to a...
Employer Gwen Moffat
In Sussex GM (already a writer for magazines and BBC Radio ) worked as a maid in a hotel, then for the Dolphin Theatre in Brighton, first as a secretary and then as property...
Employer Ling Shuhua
From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University , and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong.
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
309
She spent...
Employer Jo Shapcott
JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...
Employer Rebecca West
Food production was important during the Second World War, and the couple did their bit in this respect. They also provided a home for wartime refugees. During the war RW worked with the BBC ...
Employer Una Marson
UM was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand , William Empson , and T. S. Eliot on the BBC 's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell) .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
157-8
Employer Pam Gems
PG worked as a writer and researcher for the BBC for some years from 1950. She worked on and off while bringing up her children.
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press, 1994.
87
Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, 1993, pp. 190-01.
191
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
158
She contributed to her husband's mannequin business...
Employer Lucille Iremonger
She became a broadcaster with the BBC in 1948, and continued in this role for forty years. She became a professional writer, and contributed work to newspapers in addition to publishing books.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Employer Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ worked occasionally for the BBC from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society , which she...
Employer Vita Sackville-West
VSW was a lecturer and broadcaster for the BBC as well as a hard-working and prolific journalist.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 260-1
She has a place in any list of influential English gardeners, developing further some of the...
Employer Una Marson
UM found herself in London when World War Two began. She volunteered as an air raid shelter marshal, on the grounds that this would still leave time for her writing. She also attempted to impress...
Employer William Empson
He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European...
Employer Naomi Jacob
NJ went to work, displaying the energy of five women,
qtd. in
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
162
as a Second World War lecturer with the Ministry of Information , awelfare supervisor with ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association , and a...

Timeline

19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...

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19 May 1924

The BBC radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366

12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...

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12 June 1924

Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC radio.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366

15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...

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15 September 1924

The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
Cathcart, Rex. The Most Contrary Region: The BBC in Northern Ireland 1924-1984. Blackstaff Press, 1984.
1

3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...

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3 October 1924

The BBC radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366

13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...

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13 October 1924

The BBC broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366

1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...

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1925

An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
304 n3
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
304 and n3

17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...

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17 July 1925

The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
367

16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
204

1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...

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1926

The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
Menand, Louis. “Slips of the Tongue”. New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001, pp. 112-16.
116, 114

26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...

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26 May 1926

The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords .
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237

Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...

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Saturday 19 June 1926

About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
85
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
3: 311
Times. Times Publishing Company.
New York Times. New York Times Company.

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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By October 1926

The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
23
as her biographer puts it.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
29, 23

31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...

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31 December 1926-1 January 1927

The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237

1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...

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1927

The BBC 's first female governor, Ethel Snowden , was appointed.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
369

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