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[10] [6] [11] She has also appeared on The Pets Factor, [13] BBC Breakfast, [14] Sunday Brunch and Springwatch as well as presenting live lessons for BBC Teach [15]. In December 2022, French appeared alongside Ken Follett , Ria Lina and Susan Collins (artist) on the University Challenge Christmas special, representing University College London ...
GCSE Bitesize was launched in January 1998, covering seven subjects. For each subject, a one- or two-hour long TV programme would be broadcast overnight in the BBC Learning Zone block, and supporting material was available in books and on the BBC website. At the time, only around 9% of UK households had access to the internet at home.
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder is BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The imprint has been active since the 1980s.
Imtiaz Dharker (born 31 January 1954) is a Pakistani-born British poet, artist, and video film maker. She won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry [1] [2] and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020.
Daljit Nagra MBE FRSL (born 1966 [1]) is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! was published by Faber in 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". [2]
The poem is named after a deserted township located on the south-eastern corner of the Hebridean island of Raasay, the poet's birthplace.The settlement of Hallaig depopulated between 1852 and 1854 under George Rainy and since MacLean's relatives were affected, [2] the author decided to evoke the community of this abandoned village in his poem. [3]
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]