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Audiotapes. Sound recordings.

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

Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:

Reel-to-reel audio tapes, 'Scotland in Europe'., 1974.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6483/1-7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of talks recorded by BBC (for Radio 4 Scotland) in 1974, examining the relationship of Scotland to the European Community and it’s prospects after a year’s experience of British membership.

Concerning the relationship of Scotland to the European Economic Community.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel audiotape and transcript of a BBC radio broadcast, 'A time to talk / Hamish McInnes'.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6067/1-2
Scope and Contents

Concerning mountaineering expedition to the Roraima plateau, South America.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel sound recording, [from the label] 'Portrait - Ronald Stevenson', produced by the BBC.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7521
Scope and Contents

From the label on the box: 'British Broadcasting Corporation. Recording Service. R.P. REF. NO. YGW 45 650S122. REEL No. 1 of 1. TAKE 1 Portrait - Ronald Stevenson. TAKE 2 7 1/2 IPS'.

The title and reference number are repeated on the label on the reel.

Included is a BBC compliments slip.

Dates: 1979.

Reel-to-reel sound recording of a BBC television interview between Magnus Magnusson and Norman MacCaig.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6132
Scope and Contents

Annotated on the box, 'Personal pursuits 7 1/2 ips Norman Macaig full track'.

Dates: 1974.

Reel-to-reel sound recording of the audio from a television programme concerning John Buchan, 'Man of Parts'.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6567
Scope and Contents

The container has a typescript label affixed, 'Sound tape: John Buchan, Man of parts'.

Dates: 1975.

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 "Alasdair Gray's Scenes from Lanark. Read by the author" (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996)., 1996.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13416/67(1)-(2)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1996.

Sound recording of "Alasdair Gray's Scenes from Lanark - Volume 2. Read by the author", sides 1-2. , 1996.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/67(1)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1996.

Sound recording of "Alasdair Gray's Scenes from Lanark - Volume 2. Read by the author", sides 3-4., 1996.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/67(2)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1996.

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 'Some unlikely stories', by Alasdair Gray, read by the author, containing: [side 1] 'The star'; 'The spread of Ian Nicol'; 'The problem'; 'The cause'; 'Some recent changes'; 'The crank that made the revolution'; [side 2] 'The comedy of the white dog'. , 1994.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13416/66(1)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1994.

Sound recording of 'Some unlikely stories', by Alasdair Gray, read by the author (Edinburgh: Canongate Audio, 1994)., 1994.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13416/66(1)-(2)
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates: 1994.

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.