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Reginald Cheyne Berkeley MC (18 August 1890 – 30 March 1935) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a writer of stage plays, then a screenwriter in Hollywood. [1] [2] [3] He had trained as a lawyer. He died in Los Angeles from pneumonia after an operation. [4]
Nov 20, 2020 · This chapter provides extensive new research arguing that Reginald Berkeley was a modernist and political playwright who founded and pioneered some of the significant developments of the radio play in the 1920s.
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Aug 17, 2022 · Reginald Cheyne Berkeley (1890 – 1935) is one of the BBC’s most significant early radio playwrights. He was awarded a Military Cross during his service as an infantry officer during the First World War, worked as a propagandist for the League of Nations, and then entered politics in Britain where he was the Liberal MP for Nottingham.
Oct 8, 2020 · Reginald Cheyne Berkeley was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a writer of stage plays, then a screenwriter in Hollywood. He had tr...
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Nov 1, 2020 · Reginald Berkeley’s experimental writing in radio drama for the BBC pushed the boundaries in mixing innovation in form and style with political agitation.
- Tim Crook
Berkeley, Reginald. Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author. (1890-1935) UK soldier, politician – Liberal Member of Parliament 1922-1924 – playwright and author in various genres. Apparently inadvertently, he created one of the lasting myths of World War One in his novel about the German execution of Edith Cavell, Dawn: A ...
Nov 20, 2020 · This book engages three key phases of analysis: phonograph descriptive audio drama; political radio drama by Reginald Berkeley in the 1920s; and the left-wing political feature makers at BBC Manchester in the 1930s—focusing on E.A. ‘Archie’ Harding , D.G. Bridson, Olive Shapley , and Joan Littlewood.
