Scripts. Documents
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Script of BBC programme, "Scottish Life and Letters, May 1949-May 1969".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4788
Dates:
1969.
Script of "Lanark" by Alastair Cording, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray.
File
Identifier: Acc.11295
Scope and Contents
Includes four photographs of the TAG production.
Dates:
1995.
Script of "When I was Down Beside the Sea", a community play about Robert Louis Stevenson, by June Cooper.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11133
Dates:
1994.
Scripts and audio-cassette recordings of episodes of the BBC Radio Scotland `soap`, "Kilbreck", written by Carolyn S. Lincoln.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13353
Scope and Contents
The BBC Scotland Radio 4 daily drama serial ‘Kilbreck’ was broadcast from October 1981 to March 1984. Scottish radio`s first `soap`, ‘Kilbreck’ was an initiative of the BBC Scotland Education Department and the Scottish Health Education Group (SHEG), who put money into the programme with the aim of having health education messages unobtrusively woven into the drama. The soap was principally based in a community centre in the fictional central Scotland New Town of Kilbreck and in the home of...
Dates:
1981-1984.
Scripts and research materials for 'Chronicle'., 1966-1976.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/186-250
Scope and Contents
Chronicle was a BBC 2 television programme focusing on archaeology and related subjects which aired from 1966 until 1991. Materials in this section relate to Chronicle episodes in which Magnusson had a direct involvement.
Dates:
1966-1976.
Scripts of Bill Craig and Jane Baker of television drama series, "The Borderers".
File
Identifier: Acc.7356
Scope and Contents
With associated notes.
Dates:
circa 1968-circa 1970.
Scripts of over 300 plays performed at or submitted to the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.256
Dates:
1964-1976.
Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7573
Scope and Contents
With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.
Dates:
1971-1978.
Synopses of screenplays by Roger MacDougall, including some written with Allan MacKinnon.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13347
Scope and Contents
A small collection of synopses, libretti and scripts of stage and screen plays by Roger MacDougall (1910-1993), including some written with Allan MacKinnon (1912-1955), and one with Alexander MacKendrick (1912-1993). All but one are undated and the estimated date range is circa 1935-1945. They were found among the papers of Edward Owen Marsh, translator and adapter (information from vendor). The synopses were presumably written for submission to theatres and film studios in the hope that a...
Dates:
circa 1935-1945.
The publications of Magnus Magnusson., 1948-2006.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-185
Scope and Contents
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
1948-2006.
The Television and Radio work of Magnus Magnusson., 1961-2006.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/186-400
Scope and Contents
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1961-2006.
The Television work of Magnus Magnusson., 1961-2006.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/186-373
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains scripts and research undertaken by Magnusson for a variety of television and radio programmes running from 1961 until 2006. There are a significant number of scripts for the BBC archaeology programme 'Chronicle' which Magnusson presented from 1966. There are individual scripts and research materials on various programmes that Magnusson presented throughout his televsion career. There are a number of scripts and interviews for Magnusson's radio series "Tales...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1961-2006.
Thematic catalogue, notes on, BBC script about, and manuscripts of 19 chamber music works of, and attributed to, Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12707
Dates:
1991.
Three BBC broadcast scripts.
File
Identifier: Acc.5026
Scope and Contents
Scripts for:
1. "650th Anniversary Declaration of Arbroath"
2. "The Lerwick Crew"
3. play of Jack Gerson, "Stand in for a Hearse".
Dates:
1970.
Touring production files of 'Antigone' by Sophocles, translated by Don Taylor., 1993, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/42-45
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Many of the production files contained information which could be deemed sensitive under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998. For the sake of record, one file (‘Caledonia Dreaming’) has been kept in its entirety, though anyone wishing to consult it will have to comply with the terms of the Act and complete relevant paperwork. Potentially sensitive material, such as contracts, have been removed from all other files and shredded.
Dates:
1993, undated.
Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11745
Scope and Contents
The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.
Dates:
1943-1955 and undated.
Typescript copy of play, circa 1969, of George Mackay Brown, "The Watcher".
File
Identifier: Acc.8735
Scope and Contents
With film treatment, 1964, of John Prebble and Austin Campbell, "Culloden".
Dates:
1964-circa 1969.
Typescript drafts of novel of Jessie Kesson, "Where the Apple Ripens" (1978).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7845
Scope and Contents
With manuscript and typescript of associated short story and radio play, undated.
Dates:
1978 and undated.
Typescript of 'Vikings, Hammer of the North'., 1974-1976.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
1974-1976.
Typescripts and broadcast scripts of plays of Robert Kemp.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10159
Dates:
1947-1957 and undated.
'Viking, Hammer of the North'., 1974-1976.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/13-14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
1974-1976.