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Audiotapes. Sound recordings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Sound recordings on magnetic tape.

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Sound recording of Professor James Norman Davidson delivering a presidential address to the Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS014
Scope and Contents

The address by Professor Davidson concerns biochemistry, with particular reference to DNA and nucleic acid.

Dates: 1967.

Sound recording of the memorial service for Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington.

 Item
Identifier: UNLS013
Scope and Contents

The order of service is as follows: Organ music.- Hymn: Ye Holy Angels Bright.- Prayer.- Reading: Revelations 21, Psalm: 121 I Will Lift Up My Eyes Unto The Hills.- Reading: John 13.- Choir: Te Deum laudamus.- Eulogy.- Prayer.- Paraphrase: 61 Blessed Be The Everlasting God.- Prayer.

Dates: 1965.

Sound recordings, and transcripts, of media reports on the 'work-in' dispute, 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS). BBC broadcast material.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS022
Scope and Contents

The recordings include BBC news items and special features covering the UCS 'work-in'. Interviewees include members of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, and other workers.

Dates: 1969-1972.

Sound recordings from the Linda MacKenney Audio Collection, Scottish Theatre Archive, of interviews by MacKenney with people prominent in Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS025
Scope and Contents

A collection of interviews recorded by Linda MacKenney mostly in Scotland, but also the wider United Kingdom, between 1982 and 1985.

The collection focuses on people connected with Scottish theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. It also focuses on the creation and disbandment of important amateur theatre groups in Glasgow around the time of the Second World War, and the political climate of Scotland at that time.

Dates: 1967-1985.

Sound recordings made by Captain William MacDonald concerning Sir William Macewen.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS015
Scope and Contents

The recordings mainly concern the life of William Macewen, in particular his appointment as Surgeon-General to the Royal Navy during World War One, but also his family association with Garrochty.

Dates: Event: Majority of material found within 1858-1971.

Sound recordings made by Charles Woolfson and John Foster concerning the worker occupation in 1987 of the Caterpillar Tractors Ltd plant at Uddingston, Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS024
Scope and Contents

Charles Woolfson was a lecturer in the Department of Social and Economic Research at the University of Glasgow, and John Foster was documenting the 103 day action. The recordings are of Joint Occupation Committee meetings, interviews, and relevant broadcast material.

Dates: March-April 1987.

Sound recordings of John A Mack reading from creative and academic works on criminology.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS027
Scope and Contents

Readings predominantly made by John A Mack, an academic working in the field of criminology, from academic works written by himself and from published creative works.

Dates: Other: 1968-1976.

Sound recordings of speeches and lectures given by Sir Charles Haynes Wilson while Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS017
Scope and Contents

The recordings are of various presentation ceremonies, lectures and addresses.

Dates: 1962-1976.

Sound recordings of various lectures and speeches from events hosted at St Andrew's College of Education.

 Series
Identifier: UNLS019
Scope and Contents

Various audio recordings associated with St Andrew's College of Education, including speeches, religious services, lectures and ceremonial events.

Dates: 1970-1999.

Sound recordings of various meetings and events during the 'work-in', 1971-1972, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS).

 Series
Identifier: UNLS023
Scope and Contents

The recordings were originally made for the purpose of writing up shop stewards' bulletins by the publicity committee. The events covered include: mass meetings of UCS workers; shop steward meetings; press interviews; and television and radio programmes concerning UCS.

Dates: 1971-1972.

Springthyme Records Audio Archive.

 Collection
Identifier: UNLS030
Scope and Contents

Recordings of folk songs and traditional music made between the early and mid 1960s. Many of these are field recordings of folk songs and traditional music made in Ireland, Scotland, England, and some in Canada, by Peter Shepheard.

Dates: 1963 - 1980

Synopsis and audio cassettes relating to an unpublished biography of John Gollan, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, by Margot Kettle

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14082/1-31
Scope and Contents

Collection of thirty audio cassette tapes relating to an unpublished biography of John Gollan, with a typed synopsis.

Dates: ?1980-?1990.

Tape recording of Donald Whyte, "Scottish Emigration to North America", a paper read at the World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6853
Scope and Contents

The reel is in an envelope with the typescript, 'Scottish emigration to North America, by Donald Whyte. Tape recording 5th August, 1969, World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City, UT'.

Dates: 1969.

Transcript and tape copies of a BBC radio programme, "Everest South West".

 File
Identifier: Acc.5825/1-3
Scope and Contents

Concerning the British Everest expedition, 1972.

Dates: 1973.