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Performance of text Ruth Padel
RP has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about...
Performance of text Ruth Padel
The earliest stories that RP mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
Since the early 1990s, MW has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford , John Milton , and Ariosto : Spain, first performed...
Performance of text Mary Stewart
One of MS 's four radio plays written this year (or this and the previous year), Lift from a Stranger, was broadcast on BBC radio.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall
Performance of text Hilary Mantel
HM read her contribution to BBC Radio 4 's Talking to Myself, in which authors address their earlier selves: a letter to herself at the age of seven, excerpted from her Giving Up the Ghost.
“Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4.
Performance of text Zoë Fairbairns
ZF 's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four .
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns.
Performance of text Dylan Thomas
Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen .
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 November 2008
Performance of text Harold Pinter
The plays were heard on BBC radio in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text Hilary Mantel
HM 's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4 's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club members E. C. Bentley , Anthony Berkeley , Freeman Wills Crofts , and Clemence Dane . It was broadcast serially on the BBC .
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
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Performance of text Philip Larkin
Still struggling, PL published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
A commission from Caroline Raphael , then head of Radio 5 , resulted in SD 's original radio play Purple Side Coasters, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16 November 1995 and dealing with post-natal depression.
Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001.
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Performance of text Helen Dunmore
HD 's first radio play, The Mironov Legacy, a dramatisation of actual historical material, was broadcast as BBC Radio Four 's Afternoon Play.
Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp.
Performance of text Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...

Timeline

May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.
Crown, Sarah. “The Week in Books”. The Guardian, 27 June 2009, p. Review 5.
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Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.
“Suffragette Voices”. BBC, Woman’s Hour, 27 Oct. 2009.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian, 6 Oct. 2010.

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