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Siegfried Sassoon, typescript of broadcast 'A Tribute to Sir Max Beerbohm'
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
1956 - 1967
Comprises a typescript of Siegfried Sassoon's radio broadcast 'A Tribute to Sir Max Beerbohm', recorded in Heytesbury on 28th June 1956, for Home Service transmission, and produced by Douglas Cleverdo...
Francis Leslie Watson Collection
Watson, Francis (1907-1988)
1871-1982
Includes personalia relating to the Watson family and genealogical material relating to the Watson and Barber families. There are also diaries belonging to Francis Leslie Watson, some of his correspo...
Francis Leslie Watson Collection
1871-1982
Comprises: Box 1, Personalia relating to Major Frank Watson and Mrs Charlotte Watson, including their birth, marriage, and death certificates, Major Watson's army documents, several of his later diari...
Poetry Today
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
1964
Copy of the script for the BBC's Third Network programme Poetry Today, on R.S. Thomas and Geoffrey Hill, broadcast on 22 October 1964 (11 ff).
Correspondence and related material
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
c.1968-2015
This box contains 11 files of correspondence relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's work on translations of Beowulf and its publication. Folders 1 to 9 include: correspondence with publishers Macmill...
Notebooks
Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)
c.1964-1967
2 notebooks containing Vernon Scannell's ms drafts and notes for reviews, broadcast talks, etc.Blue notebook labelled 'Reviews, broadcast talks, etc.' contains the following: - Review of Irish Murdo...
Diaries
1930-1954
3 diaries comprising converted notebooks dated 1930, 1932-34, 1934-35. Also one desk diary from 1954. The 1930s diaries are the record of Watson as a young man in London, starting a career in journal...
The Living Poet
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
1965-1979
3 photocopies of the script as recorded for the BBC's Third Network programme 'The Living Poet', written and read by Geoffrey Hill (14 ff), and broadcast on 5 September 1965. One copy includes ms anno...
World of Books Reviews
Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)
c.1964-1965
6 carbon copy typescript reviews by Scannell for BBC Radio's World of Books programme. Includes reviews of Stanley Middleton's 'Him They Compelled' (1964); Iris Murdoch's 'The Italian Girl' and Elizab...
Personalia
1944-1976
Includes letters from Robert Hill Murray and other papers relating to his divorce from his wife Iris Claire Surdivall, known as Claire. Claire later married Francis Watson. Also contains letters rel...
Radio for Schools: First Fight
Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)
1964
Items relating to Vernon Scannell's contribution to a series of radio programmes about poetry, broadcast as part of the BBC Radio for Schools progamming in summer 1964. Includes a copy of the 'BBC Rad...