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  1. On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

    Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

    #Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

  2. On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

    Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

    #Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

  3. On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

    Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

    #Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

  4. On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

    Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

    #Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

  5. On BBC Radio 4 Extra, 13 April, 3pm BST & on BBC Sounds thereafter

    Drama by Sarah Wooley, based on Muriel Spark’s wartime work creating “Black Propaganda” for MI6. Her job was to produce what she called “a tangled mixture of damaging lies, flattering & plausible truths”

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k8v3t

    #Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #WW2 #propaganda #MI6 #20thcentury #novelist #radiodrama

  6. #OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Michelangelo (1475) - Considered by many as the #Greatest #Artist of all time.

    Birth Anniversary of Colombian #Novelist Gabriel García Márquez (1927) - Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century.

    Real Madrid CF was founded (1902).

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  7. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1754-03-02), The Adventurer, No. 138

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/25299…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #author #distraction #drudgery #essayist #novelist #storyteller #writing #writer

  8. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1754-03-02), The Adventurer, No. 138

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/25299…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #author #distraction #drudgery #essayist #novelist #storyteller #writing #writer

  9. Wednesday, November 12, 2025

    "Compared to Bakhmut, this is already a different war"; novelist Myroslav Laiuk on his wartime reporting -- Explosions and fire recorded: Russia's Orsk oil refinery hit in Ukrainian strike -- Under heavy fog, Russia presses into Pokrovsk; Ukraine says 300 troops enter city -- Justice prevails as Ukrainian oligarchs ordered to pay $3 billion in decade-old PrivatBank case ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  10. #OnThisDay New Zealand became the first country to grant all women the right to vote (1893).

    Birth Anniversary of #British #Novelist and #NobelPrize winner William Golding (1911).

    Today is International #Snakebite #Awareness Day.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  11. #OnThisDay #IBM Introduced RAMAC 305 - First commercial computer with hard disk drive (1956).

    Birth Anniversary of Shane Warne (1969) - considered one of the #Greatest bowlers in #Cricket history.

    Birth Anniversary of #Novelist Roald Dahl (1916).

    Happy #ProgrammersDay - celebrated on the 256th (hexadecimal 100th) day of each year.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  12. Portraits of E.M. Forster

    The author of novels A Room with a View, Howard's End, Maurice and Passage to India ... The writer once criticized his own abilities:

    "I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

    1) Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1920
    2) Cecil Beaton, 1965
    3) Howard Coster, 1938

    #emforster #edwardmorganforster #portrait #portraits #ladyottolinemorrell #cecilbeaton #howardcoster #photography #portraitoftheauthor #novelist #roomwithaview #passagetoindia #howardsend #maurice #author #writer #authorquote

  13. Portraits of E.M. Forster

    The author of novels A Room with a View, Howard's End, Maurice and Passage to India ... The writer once criticized his own abilities:

    "I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

    1) Roger Fry, 1911
    2) Dora Carrington, 1924/5
    3) Philip Whichelo

    #emforster #edwardmorganforster #portrait #portraits #rogerfry #doracarrington #philipwhichelo #art #artists #portraitoftheauthor #novelist #roomwithaview #passagetoindia #howardsend #maurice #author #writer #authorquote