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CLEVERDON MSS. II

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IV. British Broadcasting Corporation

Box 7

  • Correspondence, 1951-1983 (4 folders)
  • BBC Registry. List of items for Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas
  • Program notes (2 folders)

Box 8

  • Scripts, lists: 1942-1970 (2 folders)

Box 8-23

  • Scripts - see alphabetical list (Italia Prize entries are filed at the end of this section)

Box 24

  • Television training course
  • Third Programme
  • Printed
  • Press clippings
  • Miscellaneous

Box 35

  • Audio Tapes
    • 1. Albanian Folk Music (2 tapes)
    • 2. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau (Dec. 25, 1959)
    • 3. Kama Sutra (reel 1 of 3)
    • 4. The Lodger - The Lodger FX (Badings; Cain and Abel; Ballet Music)
    • 5. Love Songs of Donald Swann
    • 6. Stanley Morison on Eric Gill
    • 7. Stanley Morison; Francis Meynell [?]
    • 8. Voice of the Gods
    • 9. BBC broadcast?
    • 10. Beatniks in Paris
    • 11. June Evening - Baby crying (Francis Cleverdon)
    • 12. Presentation of Brion Gysin picture
    • 13. Stanley Morison D.C.C. (2 tapes)
    • 14. Auntie's Bloomers
    • 15. Boast of Dai [Dai Evans], read by Dylan Thomas
    • 16. Delina Delanet, by Amanda Ros. Extracts read by Bruce Angrave
    • 17. Father D'Arcy on Stanley Morison
    • 18. In Parenthesis, Closing and Boast of Dai - Read by Richard Burton
    • 19. In Parenthesis, David Jones' introduction
    • 20. In Parenthesis, unused section of David Jones' introduction
    • 21. Mervyn Levy & William Scott on Dylan Thomas
    • 22. Miss Hatch
    • 23. Permutated Poems
    • 24. Sir Max Beerbohm on Henry James
    • 25. Sir Max Beerbohm on H.D. Irving (2 tapes)
    • 26. Sir Max Beerbohm on W.B. Yeats (2 tapes)
    • 27. Sir Max Beerbohm: Sylvester Hethway's Recollections on Carlyle and Morris
    • 28. Sir Max Beerbohm: Sylvester Hethway's Recollections on Meredith and Swinburne Morris
    • 29. Sir Max Beerbohm: Sylvester Hethway's Recollections on Tennyson and Browning; on Walter Pater
    • 30. Sir Max Beerbohm: Recollections of Sylvester Hethway: Last paragraph repeated; Paragraph re sofa (Wm Morris); Paragraph re sofa; Swinburne; Introduction to TV "Happy Hypocrite"
    • 31. Ted Hughes - Poem from "Crow"; Commonwealth Arts Festival
    • 32. Ted Hughes - There Was a Man Called Oedipus (from "Crow"); Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus; Daddy

Box 38

  • Scrapbooks
    • 2. BBC features. Press cuttings
    • 3. Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass I. Annotated script
    • 4. Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass II, adapted and produced by DC. Annotated script and music
    • 5. Cleverdon, Douglas. Biography of Eric Gill. Notebook I
    • 6. Cleverdon, Douglas. The Growth of Milk Wood. Notes
    • 7. Cleverdon, Douglas. The Life and Death of Dr. John Donne, music arranged by Elizabeth Poston. Annotated script
    • 8. Cleverdon, Douglas. List of free-lance projects; script of A Soldier's Tale
    • 10. Cleverdon, Douglas. Portrait of Byron: No. 1. Notes and annotated script
    • 11. Cleverdon, Douglas. Wedlock's the Devil. Annotated script
    • 12. Cleverdon, Douglas. Workbook: From Hour to Hour; Talk on David Jones and The Fatigue; Voice of Dylan Thomas

Box 39

  • Scrapbooks
    • 13. Cleverdon, Douglas. The Young Lord Byron. Script
    • 15. Cranston, Maurice. A Dialogue on Justice. Script
    • 16. Cranston, Maurice. Imaginary Dialogues, I & II. Script for Granada TV
    • 17. Cranston, Maurice. Imaginary Dialogues, III & IV. Script for Granada TV

Oversize 4

  • Sound Recordings. (May not be used in present format - Consult Curator of Manuscripts)
    • 45 rpm:
      • Cain and Abel, by H. Badings, Electronic Ballet Music (2 sides)
    • 33 1/3 rpm:
      • British Broadcasting Corporation
      • June Evening: The story of Holdsworth Street in a Lancashire town on the evening of 21 June, 1921 (5 sides); The Elizabethans and America, I. The contribution of the Queen (1 side) (3 albums)
      • Music from the British Isles (2 albums - 3 sides)
      • World Theatre - 134: L'Arlesienne, by Alphonse Daudet (2 albums - 4 sides)
      • Violin Concertos by Mozart and Hindemith (2 albums - 3 sides)
      • 16th Edinburgh International Festival, London Symphony Orchestra: Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Nono (3 sides); Debussy (1 side) (2 albums)
      • 16th Edinburgh International Festival, London Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Moussorgsky (3 sides); Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky (2 sides) (3 albums)
      • 16th Edinburgh International Festival, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich and Scriabin (4 sides); Symphonic Variations, Dvorak (2 sides) (3 albums)
      • 16th Edinburgh International Festival, Philharmonia Orchestra: Shostakovich (2 albums - 3 sides)
      • 16th Edinburgh International Festival, Philharmonia Orchestra: Shostakovich (3 sides); Prokofiev (2 sides) (3 albums)

Oversize 5

  • Sound Recordings. (May not be used in present format - Consult Curator of Manuscripts)
    • 78 rpm
      • The Death of Vivien. 66-69 extracts
      • The Death of Vivien. 83 extract
      • A Hedge Backwards. Dub extract [side 1]; Reference tone for obverse [side 2]
      • My Brother is Dead. 86-90
      • Voices in the Air. Copy extracts
      • Voices in the Air: Song of the Octogenerian Tricycle
      • Voices in the Air: Trunk Call (3 albums - 3 sides)
      • Voices in the Air: Trunk Call - Telephone Song
      • Voices in the Air: Concerto for 2 tuning forks & [pecorino?]
      • Voices in the Air. Copy extracts (2 sides)
      • Voices in the Air: Summer is a'coming in
      • The Auction Sale, by Henry Reed (2 albums - 4 sides)
      • Max Beerbohm on Henry James. Copy (2 albums)

Oversize 6

  • Sound Recordings. (May not be used in present format - Consult Curator of Manuscripts)
    • African Rhythms (9 albums - 14 sides)
    • FX for A. O'Hanlan (1 side)
    • Mandalay 51: Lt. Gen. Sir Montagu Stapford (1 side)

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