Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
280, 288, 295
BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
. She writes first that notice of the appointment came in December 1932, but twice later that she served from 1 January 1932. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 280, 288, 295 |
| Occupation | Maureen Duffy | She also participated in debates in the 1950s and 1960s on homosexual law reform in Britain. At the time when the 1967 Sexual Offences Act became law, she discussed the BBC
2 television documentary... |
| Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
| Other Life Event | Jean Rhys | An actress, Selma vas Diaz
, had adapted Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight as a radio play and needed her permission to perform it for a BBC
broadcast. A public performance had already been set for... |
| Performance of text | Margiad Evans | |
| Performance of text | Daisy Ashford | In July 1919, DA
did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour... |
| Performance of text | E. H. Young | The following year Cape
produced a collected edition of EHY
's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press
in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud... |
| Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The plays were heard on BBC radio
in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4
's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Performance of text | Margiad Evans | After this ME
worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance... |
| Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli
and Castiglione
with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez
and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright
for BBC Radio 3 |
| Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club
members E. C. Bentley
, Anthony Berkeley
, Freeman Wills Crofts
, and Clemence Dane
. It was broadcast serially on the BBC
. Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol. 5 . |
| Performance of text | Philip Larkin | Still struggling, PL
published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press
of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read... |
| Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| Performance of text | Shena Mackay | Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3
in 1982. Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994. vii, viii British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Timeline
3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...
National or international item
3 November 1956
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC
television and ITV
as well as the BBC
radio service at home and...
24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...
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24 September 1957
BBC
television for schools began broadcasting.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
241
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
388
21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...
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21 April 1958
Margery Fry
died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College
), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...
14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...
National or international item
14 July 1958
The BBC
transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision
: coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389
4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...
National or international item
4 November 1958
BBC
television broadcast the coronation of Pope John XXIII via Eurovision
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389
Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...
National or international item
Up to 8 October 1959
The BBC
for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
390
20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...
National or international item
20 June 1960
Nan Winton
became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391
25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...
National or international item
25 December 1960
Queen Elizabeth II
's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC
television.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391
1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...
Writing climate item
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Drabble, Margaret. “Pressure to Perform”. The Author, Vol.
cxii
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001, pp. 162-4. 162
15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...
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15 January 1963
The BBC
removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...
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New Year's Day 1964
The popular and long-running BBC
programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile
, who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8. 7
1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...
National or international item
1965
Peter Watson
's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC
in response to government pressure.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
Review 15
16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...
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16 December 1966
The BBC
screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford
(husband of Nell Dunn
), produced by Tony Garnett
, and directed by Ken Loach
.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 34-5.
35
Cathy Come Home. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cathycomeho/cathycomeho.htm.
1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...
National or international item
1967
The BBC
began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
360
30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...
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30 September 1967
The BBC
's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3
, and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.
“Third Programme Starts”. BBC Four: Timeline: The Lost Decade, 1945-1955.
Childs, Peter, and Mike Storry, editors. Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. Routledge, 1999.
441
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