Add MS 89284/1/82

Material relating to Their Finest Hour, the one-act plays by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, as follows:

• draft of script - a combination of holograph manuscript and typescript, with pages cut and pasted as part of the editing process, 29 pages, [1976];
• letter from the University of Sheffield Union to the Crucible Theatre asking for Palin's contact as they would like him to give a lecture at the Union, 5 Jan 1976;
• press reviews of the plays at the Crucible Studio Theatre Sheffield, May 1976;
• leaflet for the plays at the Crucible Studio Theatre Sheffield, 19 May-5 Jun 1976;
• Crucible Studio Theatre Sheffield box office summary, 19 May-5 Jun 1976;
• letter from Jill Foster to Palin informing him that Michael Codron turned down the plays for the West End and suggested it would be better for 'somewhere off-West End, like Hampstead theatre Club', 27 Jul 1976;
• photocopy of the agreement for a short cinematographic film entitled 'Buchanan's Finest Hour' based on Palin's and Jones script, produced by Collins-Joffe Productions Ltd, 19 Mar 1980;
• 4 letters between Palin, Collins-Joffe Productions Ltd and Terry Jones regarding the division of earning from the film 'The Box' (film adaptation of Buchanan's Finest Hour,) 4 Jul-1 Sept 1981;
• statement of production cost for 'The Box' film, Sept 1981;
• 3 letters between the Lyric Theatre, Michael Palin and EuroAtlantic Ltd regarding the plays at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, 5 Jun-18 Sept 1981;
• press release for the play Underwood's Finest Hour at Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, 29 Oct-21 Nov 1981;
• press reviews of the play at the Lyrics Theatre Hammersmith, Oct-Nov 1981;
• letter from Chris England to Palin regarding the plays at Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre, Cambridge, 29 Oct 1981, written on the back of a flyer advertising the play.

The file also includes a flyer for Buchanan's International Ltd, undated.