Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters

Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters

Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director

Sardin, Pascale

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2024

216

Dura

9781032814278

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List of Figures

Foreword by Francesca Bray

Acknowledgments

List of acronyms and abbreviations

1. Introduction - 'Transcending cultural differences' (1924-1952)

2. Working as Script Editor during the 'Golden Age' of radio drama in the 1950s

BBC radio before and after the War

Bray as Script Editor

Working with radio drama

Meeting Samuel Beckett

Promoting Harold Pinter

A Broker of French Culture

The art of adapting foreign pieces for radio

On Leaving the BBC

3. Freelancing for BBC radio in the 1960s

Moving to Paris

Continuity and Change

Original Writing

Working with Talks and Features

A Humanist and a Feminist at Work

Fighting for her Rights

4. Working with the moving image in the 1970s

From BBC radio to BBC TV (1964-1968)

'Transposing' Proust's 'story of a vocation'

Galileo

Ibn Saud

An Enabler

5. A Celebrated Translator in the 1980s

Prizes and recognition

Translators and the publishing industry

The Battle of The Lover

From Laurence Sterne to... Nestor Burma

'Translaborating' with Samuel Beckett

6. Conclusion - Dear Conjunction (1991-2010)

A Bilingual Theatre Company in Paris

A Literary Activist

Index
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BBC;Samuel Beckett;British Women;contemporary art;translation;radio drama;moving image