BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts: 1940 - 1969

[Guest]

Well, some of them anyway:

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/bbc.htm

Russ

[rauschwerk]

I remember these programmes as absolutely compelling:-

F94 1964/06/15 Lloyd, A. L. Bartok as Folklorist. Part I: 1906-1918: The Years of
Exploration. TLO 40521

F95 1964/06/23 Lloyd, A.L. Bartok as Folklorist. Part II. Compiled and introduced
by A.L. Lloyd. TLO 40050

[french frank]

One to be bookmarked. Does it mean that the BBC just sold the original, physical manuscript? Sort of museum pieces? I hope they kept copies.

[Russ]

I get the impression they are the originals, with the citation being that they were "purchased".

The historical note is fascinating: love the bit about "Several hundred constituents organized The Third Programme Defense Society..."

Now that kinda rings a contemporary bell!

Russ

[subcontrabass]

One to be bookmarked. Does it mean that the BBC just sold the original, physical manuscript? Sort of museum pieces? I hope they kept copies.

These were purchased in 1996. They appear to be only of programmes produced by Douglas Cleverdon, so possibly they were his copies.

[Don Petter]

A good selection of Henry Reed items, though only three and a half of the seven Hilda Tablet plays. Also The Complete Lessons of the War (including the well-known Naming of Parts) read by Henry Reed, Frank Duncan and Carleton Hobbs, which, together with the plays, was one of my most treasured findings on the web.

[Lateralthinking1]

Goodness - Alan Lomax too.

[Don Petter]

Intrigued that my post has been edited - Did I make a boo-boo?

[Lateralthinking1]

You appear to have edited it using my name. Odd.

Actually, I haven't done anything in my host role if that is what you mean.

[Don Petter]

Well, I've done nothing to it since I posted it at 17.08! A mystery, then. (Ideas, ff?)

[aeolium]

Douglas Cleverdon was a superb radio producer - possibly the best the BBC has had, with an astonishing list of credits to his name. He seems to have almost created the genre of radio drama, with his productions of Under Milk Wood, All That Fall and the great Giles Cooper plays. He deserves a tribute programme of his own.

[Don Petter]

Just looked in again to see if the phantom editor had done anything more, but no signs. Perhaps it was an R3 mole?

[Lateralthinking1]

I think Don that this might be about inadvertently clicking on the wrong box when attempting to reply with a quote. I have done this in the past but don't recall doing so in this case.

When it has happened, I may have simply cancelled or pressed "save" to leave the box unaltered and this might then have been displayed as an "edit" by me, not that anything would have been changed.

Something along those lines?

[Don Petter]

Lat,

I'm sure it's something like that, and not your fault!

It's useful, sometimes, to practise being paranoid in case of future need.