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Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
A story by SM was read on the BBC 's Morning Story programme on 20 March 1989. Since then she has written a number of pieces specifically for radio or television. Finetake Productions made her...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago, 1989.
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Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985.
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Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM spoke with her younger fellow-novelist A. S. Byatt about aspects of her craft, in an interview for BBC Radio Four which is now available on the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Claire Luckham
CL 's musical adaptation of Defoe 's novel Moll Flanders was staged in 1986. More recently she has performed a valuable service by providing the catalyst for the delivery to radio audiences of much women's...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2010.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Ray Strachey
RS was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
NJ made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
Her life with Behn had begun in 1973 or early 1974, she wrote later, after she had taken an honours degree in English without ever hearing Behn's existence hinted at.
Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 13 Feb. 2012.
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She was stunned by...
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988.
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Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK wrote Twice Through the Heart, a poetry documentary for BBC 2 based on the life of Amelia Rossiter , a woman jailed for killing her abusive husband.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Kay, Jackie. Other Lovers. Bloodaxe Books, 1993.
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Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.
Textual Production Berta Ruck
Shortly after this BR was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while...

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