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A socialist childhood by Malcolm Muggeridge, BBC recording , 2012

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEPH/7/MUG

Scope and Contents

DVD "A socialist childhood" by Malcolm Muggeridge; Originally transmitted by BBC TV on 13 October 1966. Camera: John McGlashan. Produced and directed by Kevin Billington.

Malcolm Muggeridge visits and comments on places which were significant to him in his childhood and moves on to time at Selwyn College Cambridge. These include Croydon Town Hall, Board School, Selhurst Grammar School; Whiteway Colony, Gloucestershire; Selwyn College Cambridge; Union Christian College, Madras. Footage of Selwyn College in the Autumn term 1965 includes Porters, students, B staircase, matriculation photograph being taken, rowing, boathouse, hockey on sports field, introduction to Tutor (Professor William Brock), College at night, College Chapel, looking at the Selwyn Admissions Register in the Library, dinner at High Table. [33.15 - 45.40].
DVD 9; PAL; Region 2.London : BBC Worldwide, 2012.

Dates

  • Creation: 2012

Biographical / Historical

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-1990 (SE 1920) read Natural Science and then changed to English

Extent

1 item(s) : disk

Other Finding Aids

Storyboard available in Archive catalogues

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase by Library, May 2012

Existence and Location of Copies

Two copies available of footage of Selwyn, one on CD and and one digital

Related Materials

See SEAR/1/2/2/34a for file of correspondence about arrangments for filming; also obituary in Calendar 1990-91 which mentions his televised autobiography which is presumably the film but gives the incorrect date of 1961

General

Also listed on College Library catalogue

Finding aid date

2013-02-13 12:09:38+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Selwyn College Archives Repository

Contact:
The College Archivist
Selwyn College Archives
Selwyn College, Grange Road
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9DQ United Kingdom
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