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Papers relating to career of Janet Adam Smith at the BBC and with 'The Listener'., 1932-1979.

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Identifier: Acc.13861/60

Scope and Contents

Containing:

BBC General Instructions for the Royal Visit, 7 July 1932.

Press cuttings on the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English, 1933-1934.

Copy of BBC Staff Regulations, 1934.

Janet Adam Smith annotated copy of 'The Listener', 18 January 1933.

Janet Adam Smith annotated copy of 'The Listener, Poetry and Woodcut Supplement', 12 July 1933.

Incomplete copies of 'The Listener', covering 'The Grand Tour' series, July – September 1935.

Draft copy of Janet Adam Smith article, 'Mr Eliot and The Listener', for the magazine, with correspondence, January 1965.

Copy of 'The Listener', 18 January 1979, with an article by Roy Fuller on Janet Adam Smith when she was editor of the magazine.

Copy of an article, "Poetry and The Listener: the Myth of the 'Middlebrow'" by Jane Dowson, De Montfort University, from the ‘Sheffield Hallam Working Papers: The Thirties Now’, with reference to the work of Janet Adam Smith as assistant editor of 'The Listener'.

Letters to Janet Adam Smith in appreciation of her BBC broadcasts and articles for 'The Listener', including: Beatrix Potter; Return to the Hills; The Cairngorms; Poems by Michael Roberts;  Women of Action.

Dates

  • Creation: 1932-1979.

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Biographical / Historical

Janet Adam Smith joined the BBC in 1928. She wrote for 'The Listener' and was Assistant Editor from 1930 to 1935.

Extent

1 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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