WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

Category: British rock music groups

Category: British soft rock music groups

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

Category: British dance music groups

Category: British electronic music groups

Category: British pop music groups

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

* Canterbury scene, the British progressive music genre

Category: British music video directors

* Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia

Category: British styles of music

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Freestylers, a British electronic music group

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

* Gramophone ( magazine ), a British publication devoted to classical music

In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

In 2003, another British publisher, Wandering Star, made an effort both to restore Howard's original manuscripts and to provide a more scholarly and historical view of the Conan stories.

* Faster Than Light ( software publisher ), a British video games company

* John Brown Group, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times

* 2011 – Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher ( b. 1921 )

Andrew Millar, a British publisher, purchased the rights to James Thomson's The Seasons in 1629, and when the copyright term expired, a competing publisher named Robert Taylor began issuing his own reprints of the work.

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

British publisher Titan Magazines started producing a monthly Wallace and Gromit comic after the debut of Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

* May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher ( b. 1849 )

* March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher ( d. 2001 )

* April 9 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher ( d. 1967 )

* February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher ( b. 1893 )

** Andrew Melrose, British publisher ( d. 1938 )

* November 19 – Max Reinhardt, British publisher ( b. 1915 )

The British publisher Collins ' COBUILD monolingual learner's dictionary, designed for users learning English as a foreign language, was compiled using the Bank of English.

" A British view of Dreiser came from the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis: " Theodore Dreiser's books are enough to stop me in my tracks, never mind his letters — that slovenly turgid style describing endless business deals, with a seduction every hundred pages as light relief.

* To generate publicity for the novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis, British publisher Tony Faber offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize if a proof was submitted before April 2002.

In 1982, the British publisher Hamish Hamilton published a second translation, by Joseph Laredo, that Penguin Books bought in 1983 and reprinted in the Penguin Classics line in 2000.

In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins.

That Beethoven, in his later life, started to compose chamber music specifically for the British market may have been related to the fact that his publisher was living in London.

* Harrier Comics, a defunct British publisher

* J. W. Arrowsmith, British book printer, publisher, and imprint

* Grafton ( publisher ), a British paperback book imprint, active 1981-1993

Sir Victor Gollancz ( 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967 ) was a British publisher, socialist and supporter of left-wing causes.