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Add MS 88931/3/5
- Record Id:
- 040-001001323
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x0000e1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/3/5
- Title:
- The Voice of One’ and ‘The Eye of the Beholder
- Scope & Content:
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Comprises two typescript versions of a radio play by Mervyn Peake for the BBC Home Service:
A: ‘Writing For Sound: The Voice of One’.
B: ‘Writing For Sound: The Eye of the Beholder’. This script appears to be the later version as it contains minor revisions in pencil.
Both typescripts marked ‘Recording: Friday 14.12.56’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001001015
040-001001323 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/3 : Plays
Add MS 88931/3/5 : The Voice of One’ and ‘The Eye of the Beholder - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0003]/036-001001015[0005]/040-001001323
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1956
- End Date:
- 1956
- Date Range:
- 1956
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Publications:
- For a discussion of different versions of this play see G Peter Winnington, 'Mervyn Peake's Two Radio Plays For Christmas', Peake Studies, 9 ii (2005), 5-31. Winnington reprints an earlier version of this script with a different ending, broadcast in 1954.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)