Radio scripts.
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1961, undated.
Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1937-1948.
Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).
Typescripts, with a few manuscripts, of radio programmes written by Hector MacIver., 1949-1961, undated.
Many of these radio programmes were for the BBC's schools broadcasts and Scottish Children's Hour, but Hector MacIver also contributed to 'Arts Review' and more general programmes. Some correspondence and other material is included, notably in connection with his programme 'Leith ships at war' in 1947 (MS.26289, folio 57).
Various broadcast scripts and reports of a dramatised biography of Robert Burns in three parts by Robert McLellan, broadcast in 'This is my country'., 1958-1959.
The contents are as follows. (i) Broadcast script, 1959 (folio l); (ii) Reports on pupils' and teachers' reactions to the broadcast, 1959 (folio 52); (iii) Broadcast script of an anglicised version for use in America and the Commonwealth, 1958 (folio 59).
Various radio scripts of Ian Crichton Smith., 1971-1992.
Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Working scripts collected by Marillyn Gray, mostly relating to her career at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh., 1944-1997.
Also includes scripts relating to Marillyn Gray's work at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.