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Record Id:

040-003316430

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003252088

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Title:

Joan Bakewell: General Professional Correspondence (1973-85)

Scope & Content:

A chronological sequence of letters (and other related matter), combining letters from BBC colleagues and from others writing in a professional capacity, whether in relation to television or radio broadcasting or to Bakewell's work in other fields (as writer, journalist, or guest/presenter at a public event). Selected correspondents only listed below.

(1). 1975 and 1978. Two letters from Mary Whitehouse (National Viewers' and Listeners' Association).
(2). 1980. Beryl Cook; Sir Hugh Casson (Koestler Award Trust).
(3). 1981. 'Midlands Tonight' running order and camera script (23 January); newspaper cutting (5 June) regarding appointment as BBC Arts Correspondent, Current Affairs, with a number of letters of congratulation; Howard Brenton; Tony Harrison (postcard: 'it's such a relief to have Aeschylus finally out of my bloodstream').
(4). 1982. 'Programme Proposal from Joan Bakewell' (for short arts programme, nightly), with reply (26 April) from Christopher Capron, BBC; Joanna Drew (postcard).
(5). 1983. Glenda Jackson ('Thank you for letting me air my grievances vis a vis the R.S.C.'); Proposal (February) by Bakewell for 'regular arts news on BBC2', with associated correspondence.
(6). 1984. Philip Larkin (30 May and 21 June, re Poet Laureateship); Kingsley Amis.
(7). 1985. David Hare (declining a Newsnight profile).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003252088
036-003316283
040-003316430

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Hierarchy:

032-003252088[0005]/036-003316283[0004]/040-003316430

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1973

End Date:

1985

Date Range:

1973-1985

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Material Type:

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Legal Status:

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Names:

Amis, Kingsley, Knight, author, 1922-1995
Brenton, Howard, playwright, b 1942
Casson, Hugh Maxwell, Knight, architect, 1910-1999
Cook, Beryl, artist, 1926-2008
Drew, Joanna, gallery director, arts administrator, 1929-2003
Hare, David, Knight, playwright, b 1947
Harrison, Tony, poet, translator, b 1937
Jackson, Glenda May, MP and actor, 1936-2023
Larkin, Philip Arthur, poet and librarian, 1922-1985
Whitehouse, (Constance) Mary, broadcasting standards campaigner, 1910-2001