--- title: British Library Essay Extracts on An Inspector Calls | KS4 Teaching Resource description: A booklet containing extracts from six essays - from the excellent British Library website - to support the teaching of An Inspector Calls in the classroom. KS4 English teaching resource. 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The Life of J. B. Priestley 2. *An Inspector Calls* and J B Priestley’s political journey 3. Programme note by J B Priestley about *An Inspector Calls* 4. An Overview and Key Productions 5. Extracts from meeting notes about the set and staging of *An Inspector Calls* (1992) 6. An introduction to *An Inspector Calls* (Parts 1, 2 and 3) The booklet’s designed to give students some accessible wider reading they can tackle at home and then discuss in class.  The bits I’ve put in bold are for zooming-in on.  Typically, I’ll ask students to expand on the statements or retrieve supporting quotations – that sort of thing. Click [here](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/british-library-essay-extracts-on-macbeth/) to access a similar booklet containing essays on *Macbeth* that I put together a few weeks ago. 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