Add MS 89284/1/185

Additional material relating to Number 27, as follows:

• research material including press cuttings about tenants being harassed to leave their homes, Mar 1986-Mar 1987, and photocopies from the London Building Act 1939;
• pages from a notebook with comments on the script handwritten by Terry Jones, 20 Apr 1987;
• loose pages with notes and ideas on the script and on cast, 1987-1988;
• letter from Granada Television International to Palin thanking him for the script and informing him they do not produce material for television, with attached a list of people to whom the script was sent, 28 Apr 1987;
• photocopy of a one-page tentative at-a-glance schedule, 4 Jun-15 Jul 1988;
• filming schedule - typescript with a few annotations in Palin's handwriting, 20 Jun-15 Jul 1988;
• contract between Michael Palin and the BBC, 14 Mar 1988;
• BBC fees and agreements;
• notes and letter from the BBC about Palin's fees, Jun-Aug 1988;
• letters from actors to Palin thanking him for the film, including Michael Percival, John Rowe, Helena Michell, Arthur White, and Joyce Carey, Aug 1988;
• 3 letters and 1 postcard from fans to Palin (one to Innes Lloyd) congratulating him on the film, 1988-1989;
• card from Jonathan Powell to Palin congratulating him on the film, undated;
• press reviews, 1988;
• 3 letters to Palin from the King's Head Theatre relating to the theatre adaptation of the film by Gillian Plowman, 8 Nov 1988-Jun 1990, programme of the play with holograph annotations; and press cutting about Gillian Plowman, 20 Apr 1990;
• letter from Robert Hewison with comments on the adaptation, 4 May 1990;
• press reviews of the play by Gillian Plowman, 1991;
• letter from the BBC to Palin regarding claims that the script is based on someone else's idea, 21 Dec 1989;
• announcement of Joyce Carey's death, Mar 1993.