Typescript of BBC radio programme 'Tomorrow's Doomsday. A biographical symposium to mark the centenary of the death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803-1849' by John Keir Cross and Montague Shaw.
Publication details:
[Pencil note gives date of transmission on the BBC Third Programme as 29 January 1949.]
£150.00
SKU: 10890
Folio, [ii] + 16 pp. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged and spotted paper. First page headed in pencil 'Mr. John Keir Cross' and with the following, also in pencil, at foot: 'Transmission: Sat. 29th January, 1949. | 7.45-8.25 p.m. Third Prog.' First two pages give details of the production, including the names of the producer Noel Iliff and of the seven 'Speakers': Alan Wheatley, Laidman Browne, Valentine Dyall, Patricia Jessel, Anthony Jacob, Robert Marsden and Raf de la Torre. Second page includes instructions regarding the characters of the 'Voices' and a 'Production Suggestion'. The text of the piece is on the following sixteen paginated pages. The script is original (in both senses of the word) and not merely a selection from the poet. The characters include 'The Beddoes Voice: not a characterisation - a stylised reading voice, capable of considerable range of feeling', 'Thomas Forbes Kelsall: quiet, attractive', and 'Encyclopaedia Voice: academic and detached'.