Add MS 88985/1/1

Contains:

• 12pp word processed copy of extracts from BBC-held scripts for World in Ferment [1969].
• 3pp photocopy of BBC-held script of ‘A Small Keyboard Instrument’, a sketch for the 1972 series But Seriously – It’s Sheila Hancock.
• 3pp photocopy of BBC-held script of ‘I Could Have Died’, a sketch for the 1972 series But Seriously – It’s Sheila Hancock.
• 20pp recording script of Six Sketches for Radio (1974, transmission date 23/07/74), sketch six removed.
• 15pp recording script of Snippets (1981, transmission date 03/04/82).
• 13pp recording script of The Parrot Cage Inspector (1981, transmission date 19/04/82).
• 4pp recording script of Snippets Two: With His Bare Hands (transmission date 14/03/83).
• 3pp recording script of Snippets Two: The Private Lives of Some Very Great Thinkers Indeed (transmission date 15/03/83).
• 2pp recording script of Snippets Two: After the Birds (forms part of ‘Birds and a Whippet’, transmission date 16/03/83).
• 3pp recording script of Snippets Two: God’s Whippet (forms part of ‘Birds and a Whippet’, transmission date 16/03/83).
• 3pp recording script of Snippets Two: Leibnitz and the Boot Cupboard (probably not transmitted).
• 16pp typescript for ‘The Wrapped Gift’ (pp 24-39). This was reworked by Spike Milligan for his series Q6 but also featured in a later edition of The Dick Emery Show.
• “Unused Stuff”: 7pp photocopy of annotated script of ‘Objection More or Less Sustained’, a sketch apparently intended for TV but unused. This is sourced from collection of Simpson papers held at McMasters University; 4pp photocopy of annotated script of ‘Quite’, a sketch. This is sourced from collection of Simpson papers held at McMasters University; 2pp word processed copy of BBC-held script of ‘Televising Parliament’, a sketch for the 16 November 1963 edition of That Was The Week That Was but unused due to overruns.