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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.
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...
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.
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.
