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Total number of records: 14

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Brotherton Collection14
English Literature14
Leeds Poetry14

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
radio plays14
radio adaptations6
correspondence3
radio scripts2
verse drama audio2
autobiographical drama1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
diaries1
dreams1
fan mail1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)8
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)2
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
British Broadcasting Corporation1
Walton, Sylvia1

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Notebook 53

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

1974

This notebook contains photographs, clippings of pictures and picture postcards and typescript and manuscript poems and plays, often with annotations by the author. The photographs appear to be of the...

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Notebook 53A

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

c.1974

This notebook contains photographs, clippings of pictures and picture postcards with typescript and manuscript poems, prose and plays, often with annotations by the author. Some of the imagery in the ...

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Gurney: Radio Version (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1985

Photocopied typescript of 'Gurney' ([3], 95 pp) with Jon Silkin's ms notes and revisions in green pen. This script is accompanied by ms notes on the play in the hands of Silkin and one other, possibly...

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Gurney: Radio Version (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1985

Largely clean typescript draft of Gurney adapted for radio ([1], 84 pp) with title-page, 'Gurney: A Play for Radio.'Also held in this file is a copy of the programme for the 'World Premiere' of Gurney...

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Gurney: Radio Version (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1986-1987

Revised draft towards a radio version of 'Gurney,' comprising photocopied pages from the Iron Press edition of 'Gurney' (sometimes cut and pasted) with Jon Silkin's ms notes and revisions.Also held in...

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Gurney: Radio Version (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1986-1987

Largely clean typescript draft of 'Gurney' adapted for radio ([3], 60 pp), with title-page, 'Gurney: A Radio Drama.'

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Drama and Radio

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1955-1960

This file contains drafts of short plays that may have been intended as radio plays, including an ms draft of a semi-autobiographical play based around Jon Silkin's school days and evacuation to Dolau...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Walton, Sylvia

19 May 1957- 1 June 1957

2 letters from Sylvia Walton to Thomas Blackburn, concerning Blackburn's radio play 'Place of Meeting.'

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

British Broadcasting Corporation

5 May 1953 - 11 September 1997

89 typescript and 2 ms letters from various at the BBC to Jon Silkin; and 22 carbon copy letters from Silkin to various at the BBC. Notable correspondents include: - John Wain (2 letters; 1953) - D...

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Place of Meeting

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956

This file contains 5 annotated typescripts, all drafts of a play titled 'Place of Meeting' .This play is a continuation of Euripides' 'The Bacchae.' The file contains the following:: - 2 x typescrip...

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The Bull of The Gods

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1958

These files contain typescripts of a play concerned with the myth of the Minoan Bull, i ncluding: - 1 x 74 page typescript, previously stapled into a brown cover with Blackburn's Leeds University Sc...

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Poem Drafts (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1973-1974

Ms notes for acknowledgements; carbon copy and typescripts of contents page, a half-title page for the 'Killhope Wheel' sequence, and the poems 'A Strand from Caedmon' and 'The bird is ligamented ...'...

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