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Broadcasts. Events.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transmissions of signals, usually taking the form of programs consisting of images and sound, made public by means of television or radio.

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Audio recordings of a radio programme, 1981, concerning William Johnstone and an associated interview, undated, with him.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7936(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

The tapes were produced by the BBC.

Dates: 1981 and undated.

Broadcast papers of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1936-1971, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.7716/155-262
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.

Dates: 1936-1971, undated.

Broadcasts, addresses or essays by John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir., 1951, 1971, 1975, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11628/249
Scope and Contents

Containing:

(i) ‘Memories of the Canadian West’: script of broadcast on BBC Home Service, 5 August 1951.

(ii) Address to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh, 13 November 1971.

(iii) Address to Sir Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh, 7 March 1975.

(iv) ‘The Rifle’ account of an African safari in the Soroti Region Region of Uganda.

(v) ‘The Jameson Reid’.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1951, 1971, 1975, undated.

Broadcasts and lectures., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11750/103
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: Undated.

Broadcasts written for radio and television by Robert McLellan., ?1951-1968, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26392-26411
Scope and Contents

Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.

Dates: ?1951-1968, undated.

Correspondence and papers, including scripts and transcripts, relating to radio and television broadcasts by or involving Lady Tweedsmuir., 1951-1972.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11884/158-175
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates: 1951-1972.

Critical works of Tom Scott., Undated.

 Series
Identifier: yAcc.11750/93-103
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: Undated.

Dramatised biography of Robert Burns in three parts by Robert McLellan, broadcast in 'This is my country', a radio series for Scottish schools., 1952-1959.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26392-26393
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.

Dates: 1952-1959.

Gaelic material, chiefly plays and broadcasts, of Hector MacIver., 1934-1962, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14973
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.Autograph verse by Sorley MacLean (folios 1-2):(i) “Bho mhullaichean a’ chuilthinn chràcaich”, 29 lines. From part III of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 1 recto);(ii) ‘Aigich Sgitheanaich’, 8 stanzas. From the ‘Aigeach’ lyrics in part V of ‘An Cuilthionn’ (folio 2 recto);(iii) ‘Mo lamhan air lapadh’, 10 stanzas. ‘Crath dhiot an cadal’. With lines addressed to Hector MacIver beginning ‘Eachainn dhuinn an leadain dualaich’, 4...
Dates: 1934-1962, undated.

Gaelic material extracted from the papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14973-14976
Scope and Contents

The material extracted from MSS.26276-26300 consists chiefly of typescripts of Hector MacIver’s plays and broadcasts.

Dates: 1934-1962, undated

Miscellaneous material collected by Peter Butter relating to his work on Edwin and Willa Muir. File 1., 1913-1989.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13634/53
Scope and Contents Box named `E.M miscellaneous documents relating to him` by Peter Butter. Contains list of contents of box; Edinburgh International Film Festival programme; ‘The View from Eden: A recital in two acts arranged from the writings of Edwin and Willa Muir’ by Henry Donald, 1976; publicity and press release relating to Channel 4 productions ‘The Vision of EDWIN MUIR’ and ‘Sir PETER MAXWELL DAVIES’, 1989; Edinburgh International Film Festival brochure; ‘A Gallery of Scots: A series of...
Dates: 1913-1989.

Miscellaneous papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 1921-1954, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26014
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Notes on the Diderik ballads, and the text of a broadcast on 'Sir Halewyn', 1947, undated (folio l); (ii) An address at a graduation in Edinburgh University, 1954 (folio l2). This was printed in Sir Alexander Gray's ‘A timorous civility’ (Glasgow, 1966), pages 32-40. (iii) Press-cuttings of poems and articles by Gray, with some reviews of his work, 1921-1940, undated (folio 25).

Dates: 1921-1954, undated.