J.B. Priestley

British novelist and dramatist who wrote An Inspector Calls and the 'time plays' (Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before) — deeply influenced by J.W. Dunne's serial time theory — and whose wartime broadcasts on the BBC were as important for British morale as Churchill's speeches.

Dramatized Dunne's serial time theory — An Inspector Calls's cyclical structure and Time and the Conways's devastating flash-forward demonstrate how serial time transforms our experience of dramatic irony — making Dunne's abstract philosophy emotionally compelling through theatrical form.