British Broadcasting Corporation

Description

Correspondence, texts and contracts chiefly relating to Geoffrey Hill's contributions to radio programmes produced by the BBC. Includes:

- 1 typescript fax and 1 typescript letter to Hill from producer Tim Dee (12 February 1998 - 19 February 1999); the fax concerns a reading at Poetry International, London; the letter is accompanied by photocopies of reviews of a radio adaptation of Hill's Mercian Hymns broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 7 January 1999;

- papers relating to the programme Picturing the Word, including 3 typescript letters from producer Ekene Akalawu to Hill (20 July 1999 - 29 July 1999), a typescript of the text for Hill's broadcast, The Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling With the Angel (12 ff) with Hill's ms revisions, and a copy of Hill's contract for the programme (15 September 1999);

- papers relating to the series The Lost Voices of British Poetry, including 1 typescript faxed letter to Hill from Ekene Akalawu (7 September 1999), and ms draft of the script with ms cover note [n.d.] ([13] ff), a typescript fax of the text of Hill's talk on the Tudor Seneca with his ms corrections (29 September 1999), a typescript fax of Hill's talk with Hill's ms markings and note Script as Recorded 30.9.99 (30 September 1999) (6 ff), and a clean copy of the same (30 September 1999);

- items relating to Hill's Shakespeare for the Millennium lecture on Coriolanus, including travel documents, 2 typescript faxed letters to Hill from Radio 3 Night Waves Editor Abigail Appleton (10 January - 10 February 2000), a typescript faxed letter to Appleton on behalf of Hill (20 January 2000), a copy of Hill's contract for the programme (25 April 2000), a typescript faxed letter to Ekene Akalawu on Hill's behalf (20 June 2000), and a programme for Literature at the Royal Festival Hall, April - June 2000, including details of Hill's Shakespeare for the Millennium lecture.

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Access to this part of the collection is protected under the Data Protection Act. You will need to complete a data protection access form and return it to Special Collections for review by staff before access can be granted

Digital photography is strictly prohibited. Photocopying is restricted and the photocopying of correspondence is prohibited. Enquiries relating to the photocopying of material should be addressed to the Head of Special Collections at Leeds University Library in the first instance. Direct quotation from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill is permitted in unpublished PhD theses. The permission of the copyright holder must be sought for the use of quotations from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill for works intended for publication.

Geoffrey Hill

Related material

A letter from Alan Ayckbourn to Hill in his capacity as Drama Producer for the BBC Northern Region is held at BC MS 20c Hill/6/AYC.Papers relating to the broadcast of Hill's 'The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy' on BBC Radio 3 are held at BC MS 20c Hill/1/7/3.Papers relating to Hill's Shakespeare for the Millennium Lecture on 'Coriolanus' are also held at BC MS 20c Hill/4/32, BC MS 20c Hill/4/37, BC MS 20c Hill/5/3/19 and BC MS 20c Hill/5/4/1/5.Further items of correspondence between Geoffrey Hill and correspondents at the BBC are held in files BC MS 20c Hill/3/11 and BC MS 20c Hill/5/2/115.A recording on audiocassette tape of Hill's Picturing the Word programme on Gauguin's 'The Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling With the Angel' is held at BC MS 20c Hill/7/1/6.