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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.

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 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.

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.