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Kisses On A Postcard
''Kisses on a Postcard'' is a stage musical written by Terence Frisby with music by Gordon Clyde, John Altman, and Tom Recknell based on Frisby's experiences as an evacuee, or '', during World War II. When he was just 7 and his brother Jack was 11, they were sent from their family in South East London to a small village in Cornwall to escape German bombing during the Battle of Britain. They were two of over three and a half million children evacuated from cities in Britain, the largest migration of people in UK history. The musical began as the radio play ''Just Remember Two Things: It's Not Fair And Don't Be Late'', which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC World Service. It won Frisby the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play in 1988. The musical was premiered at the Queens Theatre in Barnstaple in 2004 under the title ''Just Remember Two Things''. It is also a book ''Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood'' (2009), published by Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Frisby
Terence Peter Michael Frisby (28 November 1932 Р22 April 2020) was a British playwright, actor, director and producer, best known as the author of the play ''There's a Girl in My Soup''. Early life Frisby was born in 1932 in New Cross, south-east London, the second son of William Frisby, who worked on the railways, and Kathleen (n̩e Campbell), who was employed in a department store. He was educated at Dartford Grammar School leaving aged 16 becoming a tailor's apprentice. He remained in the occupation for six years before gaining a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama and training to become an actor. He worked in repertory theatre under the name Terence Holland from 1957 to 1966. Under his stage name, he was also a presenter on the BBC's children's series '' Play School'' during the 1960s.Here's A House: A Celebration of Play School, Volume 1, Paul R Jackson, 2010 Plays and other work ''There's a Girl in My Soup'' opened in 1966 at the Globe Theatre (now call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Cooper Award
The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio. Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year. Five or six winners were chosen from the entire year's production of BBC drama, and published in a series of books. They were named after Giles Cooper (1918–1966), the distinguished radio dramatist who wrote over 60 scripts for BBC radio and television between 1949 and 1966. These awards ran annually between 1978 and 1992, instigated by Richard Imison at the BBC and Geoffrey Strachan at Eyre Methuen. There was no prize money, but publication was a notable mark of permanence in the ephemeral world of broadcasting. List of winners 1978 *John Arden — ''Pearl'' (Published separately as per special arrangement with Eyre Methuen) * Richard Harris — ''Is it Something I Said?'' * Don Haworth — ''Episode on a Thursday Evening'' * Jill Hyem — ''Remember Me'' * Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomsbury Publishing Books
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest museum in the United Kingdom, and several educational institutions, including University College London and a number of other colleges and institutes of the University of London as well as its central headquarters, the New College of the Humanities, the University of Law, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the British Medical Association and many others. Bloomsbury is an intellectual and literary hub for London, as home of world-known Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of the ''Harry Potter'' series, and namesake of the Bloomsbury Set, a group of British intellectuals which included author Virginia Woolf, biographer Lytton Strachey, and economist John Maynard Keynes. Bloomsbury began to be developed in the 17th century under the Earls of South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Books
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009. Events *April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library. * May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman in the position; she is also the first Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post. * May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's narrative poem ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún'' in alliterative verse, based on the 13th century '' Poetic Edda'' and probably written in the 1930s, is published posthumously. *May 16– 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford but resigns nine days later after it is alleged she was involved in what some sources call as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, a rival for the post. * August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting of the Standardization Committee of the Silesian Language. *October 8 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
