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191. Add MS 89161/6/17

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Add MS 89161/6/17
Title:
Joan Bakewell: There and Back (stage play and film script)
Scope & Content:
(1). Playscript (26 pp.) developed from a radio production (see Add MS 89161/6/16). The script was sent to Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and the file includes Hall's response (letter dated 14 December 1982) in which he concludes that the play would not readily transfer to the stage. (2). Un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982
Extent:
1 file

192. Add MS 89161/6/49

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Add MS 89161/6/49
Title:
Joan Bakewell: All the Nice Girls (background research: 'Merchant Navy & War at Sea')
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder entitled 'Merchant Navy & War at Sea', complete with sub-divisions. Background research for the novel All the Nice Girls (2009). The file comprises autograph notes, photocopy material and information derived from the internet. It includes detailed e-mail correspond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2005-2008
Extent:
1 file

193. Add MS 89161/6/34

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Add MS 89161/6/34
Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (Background material late 1950s/1960s)
Scope & Content:
Material gathered during the course of writing The Centre of the Bed (2003). W. S. Merwin (New York Times, 1995, downloaded from the internet 2001) and Ted Hughes (Dido Merwin, 'Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath', Appendix to Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame). Dido Merwin's account has been a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-2002
Extent:
1 file

194. Add Ms 89161/6/15

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Add Ms 89161/6/15
Title:
Joan Bakewell: 'The House on Stilts' (notes towards a television serial for children)
Scope & Content:
Typed outlines and various notes for a television serial for children, by Joan Bakewell and Jack Emery. The material (all c. 1977) is supplemented by a double-page extract from Observer Life magazine (6 July 1997): 'P is for piers'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1977-1997
Extent:
1 file

195. Add MS 89161/6/53

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Add MS 89161/6/53
Title:
Joan Bakewell: All the Nice Girls (letters received)
Scope & Content:
(1). Various letters and printed e-mails (2007) from Ed Victor Ltd (Literary Agency). (2). Various letters received from readers (2008-10), including former pupils of Stockport High School. Also includes letters from Harry Guest, Lynn Guest, and Andrew O'Hagan.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2007-2010
Extent:
1 file

196. Add MS 89161/6/43

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Add MS 89161/6/43
Title:
Joan Bakewell: Brought to Book (radio play: correspondence and feedback)
Scope & Content:
Brought to Book is a play for radio about the judging of a literary prize, first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7 October 2005. The file comprises correspondence about the development of the play, and 'feedback' in the form of autograph notes and completed pro formas. (1). Printed e-mails: 15 April 20...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2004-2005
Extent:
1 file

197. Add MS 89161/5/6

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Add MS 89161/5/6
Title:
Joan Bakewell: General Professional Correspondence (1986-1987)
Scope & Content:
A chronological sequence of letters, the bulk of which concern Bakewell's contractual position with the BBC. Selected correspondents only listed below. (1). 1986: George Cole (13 Feb); David Puttnam (3 July). (2). 1987: Newspaper cuttings concerning Bakewell's Newsnight contract not renewed. (3)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1986-1987
Extent:
1 file

198. Add MS 89161/1/63

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Add MS 89161/1/63
Title:
Joan Bakewell: Susan Clarke, née Rowlands (sister)
Scope & Content:
Various items relating to the life of Susan Clarke née Rowlands (1939-96), Joan Bakewell's sister. Includes: postcards (1940-45), six undated letters [c 1951-53] to Bakewell at Cambridge, and an undated letter to 'Joan and Michael' [1950s]; various photographs; newspaper cutting ('Nurse weds te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-2005
Extent:
1 file

199. Add MS 89161/6/35

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Add MS 89161/6/35
Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (background material about the Harry Roy Band)
Scope & Content:
Material relating to the Harry Roy Band, which played on board RMS Alcantara when Bakewell travelled with her parents to Argentina in 1938. See Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003), Chapter 3. The file comprises: 10 issues of The Bugle Call Rag (Newsletter of the Harry Roy Appreciation Societ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-2001
Extent:
1 file

200. Add MS 89161/5/13

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Add MS 89161/5/13
Title:
Joan Bakewell: Letters received regarding Faces of China (Radio 4)
Scope & Content:
Letters received following the broadcast of Faces of China (Radio 4, 8 March 1983): Rosemary J. Redfern (3 sheets autograph, 8 March 1983); Alexander Walker (1 small sheet typed, 21 August 1983); Leslie Hardcastle (2 sheets autograph, 23 August [1983]); Diana Ambache (1 sheet typed, 23 August 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982-1983
Extent:
1 file