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Total number of records: 15

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Archives12
Books and printed items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection15
English Literature12
Leeds Poetry12
Herbert Read Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
radio scripts15
correspondence5
radio and literature5
radio broadcasting5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)4
imaginary conversations3
books reviews2
radio plays2
australian poetry 20th1
autobiographical drama1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)8
Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)3
Innes, Michael (1906-1994)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
British Broadcasting Corporation1
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)1

Archive Series

Broadcasting

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1953-1990

This series comprises papers, chiefly drafts and copies of scripts, relating to broadcasts on BBC Radio of Silkin's poetry (read either by Silkin himself or by others), or talks and readings by Silkin...

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Péguy: BBC Radio Recording

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1982-1983

Papers relating to the recording of Geoffrey Hill reading 'The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy' for BBC Radio 3. Includes a copy of the broadcast script, recorded 5 November 1982, with Hill's...

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Poems and Drafts (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1968-1970

Ms and typescript poems, drafts and preliminaries. Includes a ts list of poem titles, headed 'Amana Grass' in ms (contents differ from the published collection); ts and ms notes on groupings of poems,...

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Radio Scripts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1977-1979

This file contains copies of typescript radio scripts for broadcasts of poems from 'The Psalms With Their Spoils' by the BBC. Includes an unmarked script for 'Joy Lined With Metal', including an intro...

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Radio Broadcast of Footsteps on the Downcast Path

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1984

Items relating to the radio broadcast of Jon Silkin reading 'Footsteps on the Downcast Path' on 18 October 1984. Includes ms and typescript drafts of Silkin's introduction to the poem; a copy of the s...

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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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The Poet and Blindness

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

10 February 1962

This file contains a 4 page radio script for a broadcast by Thomas Blackburn for the BBC Home Service as part of their 'World of Books' series. It was transmitted on Saturday 10th February 1962. The b...

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Poetry Criticism

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1960-1969

Typescript (carbon copy) drafts of an essay/article titled 'The Poetry of George Barker;' an essay/article on the poetry of Edmund Blunden (lacking the first page); and an article on the poetry of Dyl...

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Mixed Prose, Criticism and Reviews

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1973-1980

This file contains ms and typescript drafts of critical essays/articles, reviews and other prose by Jon Silkin. Includes ts and copy drafts of reviews of poetry collections by Patrick Galvin (ca. 1979...

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Mixed Prose and Criticism (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1980-1988

Annotated typescript drafts of Silkin's essay, 'Geoffrey Hill: My Subject was War and My Pity of It,' accompanied by typescript additions and corrections to the paper and related correspondence betwee...

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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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Robert Browning

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

March 1965

This file contains a radio script for a recording made by Thomas Blackburn for the British Council, March 1965, on Robert Browning, as part of their Feature Articles Service.

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