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Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...

The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...

Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.

ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.

DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...

BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.

EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...

The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...

The BBC broadcast LL 's television play Sweet Nothings; it was published the same year.