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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (notes on Late Night Line-Up)
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring binder concerning the BBC 2 programme Late Night Line-Up, combining autograph research notes made for Bakewell's autobiography with copies of internal BBC memoranda (obtained from the BBC archive). The file also includes records of Bakewell's earlier television work (e.g. Table...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed ('Corrections')
Scope & Content:
Contents of a ring-binder entitled 'Corrections'. The sub-divisions of the file ('Check', 'Answers' and 'Include') indicate that the material represents a final 'sweep' of the autobiography in draft. Includes two letters from Harry Guest (one of which includes his translation of lines from 'Le La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2002
Extent:
1 file

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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

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: Brought to Book (radio play: first draft, second draft)
Scope & Content:
Two undated spiral-bound scripts ('First Draft' and '2nd Draft'), both of which are annotated. (Brought to Book is a play for radio about the judging of a literary prize, first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7 October 2005.)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2004-2005]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: Brought to Book (radio play: 'Working script')
Scope & Content:
Two spiral-bound scripts: Script annotated 'Working script / Feb 9th' on title-page (with further annotations to the text). Script (variant) without annotation, but including two small sheets at front cover with autograph notes (character names and the titles of the works being judged). (Brought...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2005]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: Brought to Book (radio play: three drafts)
Scope & Content:
Three unbound drafts: 'February version' (each scene separately paginated). Some re-numbering of scenes, but otherwise not annotated save for 'Version C: Feb 11' at the head of Scene 2. Draft annotated 'Since Revised' on the title-page. Further annotations to the script, and many pages are annot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2005]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: Brought to Book (radio play: assorted draft material)
Scope & Content:
Assorted draft material: Annotated draft, pp. 1-52. Undated. Scenes 1-5 (pp. 1-5), dated 'March 2005'. Incomplete draft, dated 'April 15th' [2005]. Scenes 1-11 only. Heavily annotated draft, pp. 1-53. Undated. Various draft fragments, individual scenes. Annotated. Undated save for one fragment (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2004-2005]
Extent:

1 file

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The View from Here (press and publicity)
Scope & Content:
The View from Here (2006) is a collection of articles based on a column that Bakewell wrote for The Guardian newspaper. In her 'Introduction' to the book, Bakewell describes it as 'a personal record of how I feel about being over seventy, based on and augmenting those Guardian columns'. The fil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2006-2007
Extent:
1 file

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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

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: All the Nice Girls (research: 'Stockport High School Magazine')
Scope & Content:
Bakewell's prefatory 'Author's note' to her novel All the Nice Girls records: 'This is a novel grounded in fact. In the 1940s I was a schoolgirl at Stockport High School for Girls when it joined the Ship Adoption Scheme and adopted a merchant ship. Its captain and his wife became great benefacto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1974
Extent:
1 file