Sentence examples for radio commission from inspiring English sources

She was 15, a slender, pale brunette whose father, a headphone manufacturer, was later appointed to a radio commission by President Calvin Coolidge.

This new sitcom, written by David Cummings (Fast Show, Happiness) for his first radio commission, and starring Paul Whitehouse, is set in an ailing recording studio run by a former roadie.

JUILLIARD FOCUS This perpetually searching festival turns its attention to 75 years of international radio commissioning.

The global opportunity is much more limited and commercial radio commissions almost nothing from the sector.

Then NBC radio commissioned an opera from him, The Old Maid and the Thief (1939).

Since the late forties, composers have sustained themselves on radio commissions, teaching assignments, festival appearances, and other institutional appointments.

Pinter wrote A Slight Ache, A Night Out and The Dwarfs initially as radio commissions for her, and remained grateful to her throughout his life for this crucial early support.

Like the other flagship Nineties electronica artists, Daft Punk presented more like a band than DJs: touring behind an album of proper songs, placing singles on alt-rock radio, commissioning inventive videos with then-fledgling directors like Gondry and Spike Jonze.

Radio 3 commission, The Pankhurst Anthem, set to be performed at the unveiling of Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester.

The Radio 4 commissioning editor for comedy, Caroline Raphael, said: "We have commissioned a pilot currently called The Museum of Curiosities.

Rosenberg interviews these rappers' rappers on the radio, and commissions new verses from them for mixtapes that he distributes online.