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The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television...

As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...

VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.

CH gave a BBC radio broadcast on the twenty-fifth anniversary (which fell this year) of women's attainment of the vote.

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

Guest-editing the BBC 's Today programme at almost ninety, PDJ openly accused the director-general of dumbing down.

The tithe campaign, which ran down with the onset of the Second World War, was recalled in a BBC programme in the series Yesterday's Witness in May 1972, written by Janet Hitchman , in which...

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...

EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...

RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...

DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

James said that in this novel she wanted to bring many conventions of the classical English mystery up to date, and to confront them with the courage, the dispassionate intelligence, and the cool common sense...

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...

From 1948 she was making the amazing sum of three guineas for 1,000-word articles for a nature magazine. She once wrote a correspondence column: questions as well as answers. Someone suggested she should write for...