Will Self: Dorian ('Letters to an Icon: Deconstructing Dorian Gray', BBC Radio 4)
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Short play, broadcast 29 March 2002, BBC Radio 4, 2.15 pm, as part of the programme Letters to an Icon. Three word-processed copies of the text (5 sheets + 5 sheets + 8 sheets). [BBC Genome: 'Authors Will Self, Bonnie Greer, and Ali Smith have dramatic encounters with their personal icons in a...
The file comprises: original envelope front in which the material was received (addressed to Self, franked 19 Feb 2003); pencil notes (3 sheets) headed 'Voices' which briefly describe the voices of each character, e.g. 'Wotton - lisping, arch, camp, affected'; Dorian abridged by Kati Nicholl (pp...
Communication with Jack Emery and Joan Bakewell (Drama House) and the second draft of a film script by Self. For context, see Self, 'It's a wild, Wilde world', The Guardian (5 July 2003): 'In 1998 I was approached by Joan Bakewell and her then husband, Jack Emery, to consider doing a film adapt...
E-mail communication concerning an unauthorised film proposed by Duncan Roy, based upon Self's novel Dorian: (1). 26 April 2005. E-mail message from Martin D. Singer, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, to Duncan Roy (4 sheets). (2). 27 April 2005 (9.41 pm). Roy to Singer (1 sheet). (3). 27 April 2005...
Will Self: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (author's notes)
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(1). Printed entries from the Microsoft encyclopedia Encarta for 'Shiva', 'Juggernaut', 'Divali', and 'Manu' (4 sheets, with several 'post-it' notes attached). (2). Various autograph notes, particularly concerning the story 'Dr Mukti'. Includes a large number of 'post-it' notes arranged on shee...
Will Self: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe ('161' - building plans)
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Three large, folded building plans. City of Liverpool, 22 storey Flats, Sheil Park, Blocks 7, 8 and 9. (1). Sheil Park Block 7, east elevation. August 1963. (2). Sheil Park Block 9, ground floor plan. January 1964. (3). Sheil Park Blocks 7, 8 and 9, typical floor plan. January 1964.
Will Self: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe ('Dr Mukti' - draft B)
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Complete typewritten text (unmarked), pp. 1B-145B. Together with the book's title-page (four 'post-it' notes attached), contents page, Acknowledgements (2003), and dedication.
Will Self: Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe ('161', 'The Five-swing Walk', 'Conversations with Ord', 'Return to the Planet of the Humans')
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(1). '161'. Typewritten draft, corrected by hand in pencil. Originally numbered pp. 1B-56B, re-numbered pp. 146-201. (2). 'The Five Swing Walk'. Word-processed draft, some corrections by hand in pencil, pp. 202-232. (3). 'Conversations with Ord'. Word-processed draft, some corrections by hand...