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Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
Occupation | Irene Handl | She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC
Channel Four. |
Occupation | Jean Binta Breeze | After appearing on the BBC
programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | While CC
was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay
, who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the... |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt
observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as... |
Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 311 |
Occupation | Clemence Dane | By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC
's Brains Trust series. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964. 58 |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 154, 156n50 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 565 |
Occupation | Selima Hill | SH
ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust
, and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a... |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson, 1970. 184 |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply
at this time. She spoke on the BBC
at least once, in a radio address... |
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