Comprises: two letters from the David Glass New Mime Ensemble to Sebastian Peake; word processed script by John Constable [based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake]; production flyer; photocopies of reviews.
Correspondents M-N: M [continued from Add MS 88931/13/3/17/2]: Duncan McAra; Desmond Mason; Denise Mooney; Tim Mitchell; Raymond Miller. N: Gerald Neill; P E Nash. Includes: sketches and typescript poems ('The Invigilator', 'A cricket chirrupped in the dark...', 'The Silence in the School Yar...
Correspondents P-W: P: Nigel Paton. R: Cristiano Rafanelli; David Rinaldi. S: Jay Gardiner-Scott; Richard Sisson, Christ's College Cambridge; Glenn Sadler. T: Prof K Takakuwa; Fabio Tagetti. V: Nigel A Virley. W: Ingrid Waterhouse; Felicity Wood; Roger Wooster.
Mostly autograph. Multiple letters from some correspondents. Letters from: Edwin Morgan, University of Glasgow; Judith Brown; George E[-]; John Kilburn; Billy and Joyce; Jeanette P H? Fisher; J L Backhouse; Susan Bowman, Westfield College; John Hardy; Mary I Paton; Peter McKenzie; Severn Darden...
Mostly autograph. Multiple letters from some correspondents. Letters from: Jennifer Rowles; Nicolas Jowett; Hamish Halls; John Furnival; David Miller; John Hewitt; Dainis Bisenieks; Joyce Hines; Paul Chown; Derek Carver; Robert Booth; Maurice Barlow; J C Gallogher; Leslie J Sklaroff; Sylvia Pas...
Correspondents A-H: A: Angie Avraamids. B: Brian Bristow; Dainis Bisenieks; Laurence Bristow-Smith; Hugh Brogan, Editor of the Cambridge Review; Marilyn [Brooks], Mervyn Peake Society; Sharon Baxter; Brian E Belet. C: Jacquelyn Colesby; Rosa Gonzalez Casademont. D: Paul Davies. E: Extrapo...
Unrealised adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast. It is unclear whether this project was always intended as a television serial, or whether a full-length film was considered.
Adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast for BBC Radio
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Comprises the following scripts by Brian Sibley [broadcast by the BBC in 1984] based on Mervyn Peake's books: Word processed draft of 'The History of Titus Groan' (with enclosed letter from Sibley to Maeve Gilmore, 9 August 1982). Typewritten script of 'Titus Groan' [appears to be later draft of...