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British Broadcasting Corporation

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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BBC: Audience Research Methods, 1978 - 1979

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 4/9
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to BBC meetings discussing audience research methods. With a copy of a document entitled 'H. L. R.'s observations on Dr. Abrams's report on the Listener Research Department' (n.d.).

Dates: 1978 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1953

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/24
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; English Speaking Union events; Suez Canal Company business in Cairo and Paris; discussions regarding the Drogheda Committee and Report; BBC Board of Governors' meetings and social engagements, including discussions with Lady Rhys-Williams and Barbara Wootton; remarks on television programming; Cadogan's first-hand experience of the Coronation...
Dates: 1953
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/25
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; Chatham House meetings on Anglo-American relations; discussions regarding Drogheda Report; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, secret intelligence, and the Independent Television Authority, the BBC's responses to the government White...
Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1955

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/26
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on audience research and the BBC's relationship with the government and the Independent Television Authority; religious programming; arrangements for the installation of television transmitters at Crystal Palace; the BBC's role during the...
Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1956

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/27
Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; private meetings with Foreign Office officials including Ivone Kirkpatrick; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business, including news of crisis and responses to nationalisation by Gamal Abdel Nassar; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, competition with commercial television,...
Dates: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

Home, 1938 - 1946

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA 1/2
Scope and Contents

BBC administrative papers and broadcast guidelines.

Dates: 1938 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

The Papers of Ivo Geikie-Cobb

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GEIK
Scope and Contents Letters chiefly relating to Geikie-Cobb's commissioning of BBC broadcast talks during the Second World War (mainly under his pseudonym 'Anthony Weymouth'), which he apparently kept as souvenirs. Correspondents include: Edith Watson, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, acknowledging a letter from Geikie-Cobb advising that it should be made clear to the German Government that German cities would be bombed in retaliation for the bombing of British cities; Patricia Hamilton,...
Dates: 1940 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Stephen Brown, 2023

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 226
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2023
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.