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131. Add MS 88931/4/2

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Title:
BBC Radio Adaptations
Scope & Content:
Dramatisations by Mervyn Peake of his own works
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956-1964
Extent:
4 files

132. Add MS 88931/4/2/1

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Title:
Titus Groan
Scope & Content:
Typescript by Peake inscribed 'TRANSMISSION. BBC Third Programme: Wednesday 1st February 1956'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

133. Add MS 88931/4/2/2

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Add MS 88931/4/2/2
Title:
For Mr Pye - An Island
Scope & Content:
Typescript by Peake [lacking end of script?]. Inscribed: 'TRANSMISSION: HOME SERVICE: Wednesday, 10th July 1957'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957
Extent:
1 file

134. Add MS 88931/4/2/3

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Title:
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Scope & Content:
Script and score for a performance of Peake's poem set to music, produced by Laurence Gilliam with Marius Goring as the sailor and Marjorie Westbury as the child. Broadcast by the BBC Third Programme [26 August 1964].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
2 files

135. Add MS 88931/4/2/3/1

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Title:
Script: 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'
Scope & Content:
Typescript with pencil notes on cover sheet listing the names of musicians.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 file

136. Add MS 88931/4/2/3/2

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Add MS 88931/4/2/3/2
Title:
Score: 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'
Scope & Content:
By Tristram Cary. Includes text of poem and music cues.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
1 oversize file

137. Add MS 88931/5

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Title:
Ideas for Television
Scope & Content:
Working notes for proposed television programmes and other projects.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
2 files

138. Add MS 88931/5/1

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Title:
Ideas for TV
Scope & Content:
Autograph notebook. Contains lists of ideas for projects with potential commercial value (not all for television). Includes loose leaf with fragment of verse, 'I'm just a Line...'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

139. Add MS 88931/5/2

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Title:
Ideas For Television: "Just a Line"
Scope & Content:
Comprises working notes for 'Just a Line', an unrealised animated television programme with drawings and commentary by Mervyn Peake: Autograph notebook entitled 'Re Diffusion'. Comprises draft fragments of 'Just a Line' and a few line drawings. Undated. Loose leaves with ideas for 'Just a Line'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1955
Extent:
1 oversize file

140. Add MS 88931/6

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Title:
Notes and Research Material for Autobiography
Scope & Content:
Preparatory work for Peake's fictionalised account of his childhood [working title 'China to Eltham']. Although the earliest material dates from 1939, Peake probably started work on his autobiography in 1950; see Maeve Gilmore, Peake's Progress (Middlesex: Penguin, 1981), p.470.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939-1960s]
Extent:
5 files