Scripts. Documents.
Found in 559 Collections and/or Records:
Script for Chronicle ‘The Lost World of the Maya’., 1972.
Chronicle was a BBC 2 television programme focusing on archaeology and related subjects which aired from 1966 until 1991. Materials in this section relate to Chronicle episodes in which Magnusson had a direct involvement.
Script for Chronicle ‘The People of the Moors’., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
On the Bog people.
Script for Chronicle ‘The Treasures from the Sacred Well’., 1969.
On Chichen Itza.
Script for Clive James’s 'A Night of 1000 Years’ to celebrate the millennium., 1999.
Script for Compass., 1963.
On the reorganisation of Arts funding in Scotland.
Script for ‘Guinness: Leading the World’., 1988.
On the history of Guinness.
Script for Mastermind Celebrity Special., 2002.
Script for Mastermind final., 1989.
Script for Mastermind spoof programme., 1987.
Script for Midland Bank’s ‘Putting Customers First’., 1987.
A video introduction for team members narrated by Magnusson.
Script for ‘Mons Meg – The Thunderer’., 1985.
On the cannon at Edinburgh Castle.
Script for National Trust for Scotland Appeal., 4th quarter of 20th century.
Script for New Life Film Production ‘Beyond the Limits’., circa 1979
On fisherman and fishing in the Westman Islands to the south of Iceland.
Script for ‘On Top of the World’., 1973.
A promotional film on Reykjavik. Script and narration by Magnusson.
Script for Sagaland production ‘Three faces of Iceland’., 1974.
Script for television documentary ‘The Clans’., 1972.
Script for television programme on ‘Springburn’., 1979.
Script for televison programme ‘Islands out of the sea’., 1976.
On the volcanoes of Iceland.
Script for the BBC 2 television programme ‘The Violent Universe’., 1969.
Script for the opening of the Essochem petro-chemical plant in Mossmorran, Fife., 4th quarter of the 20th century.
Script for the Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust., 1984.
Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.
Script for ‘The UK petrol market’., circa 1990.
Script for ‘Three faces of Iceland’., 1974.
Script for ‘Ticket to Tarma’., 3rd quarter of 20th century.
A comedy for television written by Iain Crawford and Magnusson.
Script for TV appeal in aid of Ardgowan Hospice, with Hospice Newsheets., 1989.
Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.