Scope and Contents Spitting Image answerphone audio cassette tapes and/or cases, accompanied by case inserts relating to these tapes, made by The Comic Answer Company Limited/K-Tel International (SI/488). These 'answerbacks' tapes feature impressions of celebrity and political figures from Spitting Image voice actors: Chris Barrie, Steve Nallon and Nigel Plaskitt. The front covers of the inserts have images of Spitting Image...

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A 1988 Spitting Image calendar. The item features plasticine model illustrations by Spitting Image Productions Limited on the cover and for each month (SI/31, 107 to 17; and L+F/107), with further artwork designed by the company, Shape of Things. The calendar was printed by Danilo Publishing Limited.

Scope and Contents A folder containing 17 plastic sleeves of photographic material, relating to a Spitting Image calendar for 1988 (SI/31 and 109-117). The sleeves primarily hold 63mm colour transparencies. However, there are also a few negatives, and a colour photograph. The images have illustrations that feature plasticine models and/or puppets of various celebrities and politicians from the period.John Lawrence Jones appears to have been the primary photographer for this...

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This file comprises:-
3 autograph letters signed and 2 typed letters signed from John Gielgud to NGA. 29 Jan. 1945 - 11 Jan. 1997
1 carbon typed letter from NGA to John Gielgud. 8 Nov. 1995.

Scope and Contents 40 autograph letters, signed, and 30 autograph postcards, signed, from E.M. Forster to R.J. Buckingham.Enclosures:1 autograph letter, signed, from John [Gielgud] to Joe [Ackerley]. [Aug. 1942]2 autograph postcards, signed, from John [Simpson] to E.M. Forster. 27 Apr. and 1 May 19421 autograph letter, signed, from Stephen [Tennant] to E.M. Forster. 18 Feb. 19421 autograph letter, signed, from George [Wilson] to E.M. Forster. 8 Aug. 1942To request this envelope, please...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...

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A file containing material relating to the publication, Spitting Images. The following are present: a paperback copy of the British version of the book, published by Century Hutchinson Limited; a cover proof for the British version; a paperback copy of the American version of the book, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; and contracts for Ben Elton and Heathcote Williams, as additional writers for the publication.

Scope and Contents Seven boxes with numerous sleeves of 63mm and 35mm photographic transparencies and slides, along with a small amount of photographs, which mostly feature images of Spitting Image puppets. These images were produced for a number of purposes, including use in external publications and corporate literature, and general use by the media. The images found in these transparencies were taken by John Lawrence Jones, Steve Bendelack, Andy de Emmony and other...

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Photograph showing (left to right) 2 unidentified men, Richard Pasco, an unidentified man, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, GHWR and John Gielgud standing together on a lawn, possibly at a recital. The photograph may have been taken at Stratford-upon-Avon. Dimensions: 16.5 x 20.6 cm. Sleeve 106.

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The file comprises an issue of 'The Listener', 23 Apr. 1964, with the interview on pp. 661-4. The interview was broadcast on the Third Programme.

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Re personal and theatrical news, including acting at Oxford Playhouse 1925-7, New York 1927-8, South Africa 1931, war service, teaching and directing at Old Vic after the war.

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1 autograph letter signed.

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1 autograph letter signed.

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39 autograph letters signed, 8 typed letters signed, 3 autograph postcards signed, 2 telegrams and 11 Christmas cards. The file also contains notes by Harley Granville-Barker on John Gielgud rehearsing Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre, London, June 1939, transcribed by John Gielgud.

Scope and Contents A file holding numerous plastic sleeves and small envelopes containing 63mm and 35mm photographic transparencies and slides, along with some photographs, featuring images of puppet illustrations taken for the Spitting Image Productions Limited merchandise publication, The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image Book. These photographic images were taken by John Lawrence Jones.The sleeves and envelopes are labelled with the illustrations' original 'SI'...

Scope and Contents Numerous plastic sleeves holding 63mm photographic transparencies and 35mm slides, along with a small amount of photographs and negatives, which feature images of puppet illustrations made for both the British and American versions of the Spitting Image Productions Limited merchandise publication, Spitting Images. These photographic images were produced by John Lawrence Jones.The sleeves are labelled with the following information: the subject(s) of the...

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VHS and Betamax video recordings of 'Christmas Carols from Cambridge'. Conducted by Philip Ledger with readings by Sir John Gielgud.