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51. Add MS 89161/6/2

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Add MS 89161/6/2
Title:
Joan Bakewell: Columns for Radio Times and for The Listener
Scope & Content:
1. Radio Times. Cuttings of 'Review' and 'Preview' columns, and some feature articles (1975-78). 2. The Listener: Cuttings (1972-81): 'Magic and Mushrooms - John Cage talks about his recipes to Joan Bakewell' (Late Night Line-Up interview). 15 June 1972. 'Langham Diary' (Radio 3). Reporting fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972-1981
Extent:
1 file

52. Add MS 89161/6/42

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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

53. 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

54. Add MS 89161/6/49

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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

55. Add MS 89161/6/34

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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

56. Add Ms 89161/6/15

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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

57. Add MS 89161/6/53

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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

58. 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

59. 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

60. Add MS 89161/6/38

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Title:
Joan Bakewell: The Centre of the Bed (biographical notes concerning Bakewell and Pinter, and records of conversations)
Scope & Content:
Autograph and some typed notes by Bakewell, chronicling the history of her relationship with Harold Pinter in preparation for drafting The Centre of the Bed. The notes include records of conversations with him in 1995-6 and 2001-2. (1). 'Chronology'. List of dates and events in Bakewell's and P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-2002
Extent:
1 file