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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...

FW wrote her first television play while she was a housewife in Acton, about a prostitute living as a married woman in a suburb rather like Acton. The BBC turned it down...

Some of these nine stories had recently appeared in anthologies; two were commissioned by BBC Radio 4 , and read on air in 1991 and 1992. In one of these, A Mine of Serpents...

As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...

ST 's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they...

The Literary Review printed MG 's radio play Over and Out, which was performed by the BBC during the same year.

The BBC filmed five Wimsey novels (set in the 1920s) with Ian Carmichael playing the sleuth, then added the three Harriet Vane mysteries, set in the 1930s.

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...

EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

Extraordinarily prolific, MW has contributed innumerable articles and reviews to periodicals, including the Independent, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary...

During the second world war EB 's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her...

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...

The novel has never been a feature film, but was adapted as a highly successful BBC television series in 1994. In 2014 Rebecca Mead published her very successful My Life in Middlemarch (USA) or...

Tey's novel was made into a BBC television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis .