[Charles Williams, with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien one of the ‘Inklings’.] Typescript of Ruth Spalding’s BBC radio programme ‘Portrait of Charles Williams’, produced by Terence Tiller and featuring T. S. Eliot, Christopher Fry and others.

Williams, who has an entry in the Oxford DNB, became a close friend of Spalding and her sister Anne after lodging with their parents during the Second World War. The present item is a transcription, made and printed out around the 1980s, of the 1961 radio programme, on one side each of 34 numbered pieces of A4 paper, loosely gathered by a black plastic spine. Accompanying the item, each on a piece of A4 paper, are photocopies of lithographic portraits (by Anne Spalding?) of ‘Charles Williams’ (sitting in an arm chair, cigarette in mouth, studying a newspaper) and ‘Gerry Hopkins’ (seated with pipe in mouth at table in army fatigues, doing hand work). The material is in good condition, lightly aged. Hopkins is one of the contributors to the programme, along with T. S. Eliot, Christopher Fry, Anne Ridler, Victor Gollancz, Martin Browne, and others. The present copy comes from the Christopher Fry papers. No other copy traced yet.