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Broadcasting

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 506 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD
Scope and Contents

The collection includes scrapbooks containing photographs and press cuttings; family and professional correspondence; speeches and articles; official documents relating to Foreign Office and Suez Canal Company business; and draft notes for Cadogan's autobiography. A series of frank personal diaries with almost daily entries cover Cadogan's career and private life from his appointment as Minister to China in 1933 to his retirement.

Dates: 1890 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: 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.
 Fonds

The Papers of John Tusa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TUSA
Scope and Contents

Comprising diaries and scrapbooks; books, articles and lectures; correspondence files; memorabilia; and audio-visual material.

Dates: 1957 - 2020
 Fonds

The Papers of Sir Ian Jacob

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/JACB
Scope and Contents

The papers cover Jacob's adult life from his early army career, his work as Assistant Military Secretary to the War Cabinet and as Director General of the BBC, to his retirement where he remained active in many important public services. Also included are some Boer War papers which were kept by Jacob's father-in-law.

Dates: 1899 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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'The Week in Westminster', 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 2/7
Scope and Contents

Fortieth anniversary pamphlet on the history of the BBC radio programme 'The Week in Westminster', with photograph of Mary Agnes Hamilton, who presented the first talk in 1929.

Dates: 1969
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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Transcript of interview: Sir Stephen Brown, 2023

 File
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.
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Ulster: miscellaneous papers, 1970-12 - 1991-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/1/19
Scope and Contents Transcripts of broadcasts and interviews with JEP, mainly on his general career, with other subjects including 'The Chamberlain Trilogy' on Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain, a worldwide political shift to the right, immigration and politics in the 1970's (with Michael Foot. Also includes: text of an interview with members of the People's Democracy, including [Josephine] Bernadette Devlin [later Bernadette McAliskey]; draft report of the European...
Dates: 1970-12 - 1991-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Unsigned memorandum, c 1939-1940

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PJGG 8/1/11
Scope and Contents

Typescript. Germans using information in BBC Empire broadcasts and re-interpreting to Britain's detriment in their overseas broadcasts.

Dates: c 1939-1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/27
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Alber [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, confirming booking of a 15 minute broadcast from Boston [United States] on 10 March, at a fee of 1,000 dollars.

Dates: 21 Feb 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/29-30
Scope and Contents

Letter from Louis Alber, President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on an itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States, confirming an offer from Columbia Broadcasting Company, of 1,000 dollars for a talk, stating that this was a great disappointment, as he had been hoping to secure a deal for three broadcasts at a fee of 7,000 dollars.

Dates: 17 Feb 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/32
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Louis Alber [President of the Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on an offer from [the Columbia Broadcast Company], of 1,000 dollars for a broadcast, asking if he wished to accept, annotated with WSC's reply asking Alber to try to secure a three broadcast deal, but otherwise to accept.

Dates: 17 Feb 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Feb] [1932]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/35
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] on his lecture tour of the United States, instructing Alber to accept an offer of a broadcast [with the Columbia Broadcasting Company for 1,000 dollars]. [Copy].

Dates: [Feb] [1932]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/214
Scope and Contents

Letter from Cesar Saerchinger, Director, European Service, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] to Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC], on the possibility of WSC making a radio broadcast on India during his lecture tour of the United States.

Dates: 23 Mar 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/217
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Violet Pearman, Private Secretary to WSC] to Cesar Saerchinger, [Director, European Service], Columbia Broadcasting System, [CBS] declining his invitation for WSC to address the United States by transatlantic radio. [Carbon].

Dates: 21 Mar 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/218
Scope and Contents

Letter from Cesar Saerchinger, Director, European Service, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] to WSC, inviting him to address the United States by transatlantic radio.

Dates: 19 Mar 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Mar 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399A/65
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Paul Hollister, (Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn Incorporated, Madison Avenue, New York [United States]) to WSC, asking for details of subjects to be covered in his forthcoming broadcast, to help with advance publicity.

Dates: 03 Mar 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399A/66-79
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of interview between WSC and Edwin Hill for the Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] broadcast on the Hart Schaffner and Marx Trumpeters radio programme, 10 March, on subjects including WSC's road accident, superstition, the future chances of war, the world depression, the importance of co-operation between the English-speaking peoples and the strength of the monarchy; also includes list of preparatory questions.

Dates: 09 Mar 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399B/211
Scope and Contents

Letter from Herbert Glover, Director of Broadcasting, Columbia Broadcasting System Incorporated [CBS], (New York [United States]), to Gerald Cohen, asking if WSC would be willing to record a New Year message.

Dates: 29 Dec 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/1
Scope and Contents

Letter from Seymour de Lotbiniere, General Talks Executive, BBC to WSC, on request from the National Broadcasting Company of America to broadcast his talk in the "India" series on 29 Jan.

Dates: 22 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/2
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Violet Pearman], Private Secretary to WSC to Seymour de Lotbiniere, General Talks Executive, BBC, agreeing to request from the National Broadcasting Company of America to broadcast WSC talk in the "India" series on 29 Jan [carbon].

Dates: 24 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/3
Scope and Contents

Letter from Henry Anderson, Cap d'Antibes, France to WSC, complaining that his BBC broadcast talk on India had been interrupted.

Dates: 30 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/5-6
Scope and Contents

Letter from J Beresford Clark, Empire Programme Director, BBC to the Private Secretary to WSC, giving explanation for the interruption to WSC's broadcast talk on India on 29 Jan.

Dates: 08 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Feb 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/7
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Violet Pearman], Private Secretary to WSC, to Henry Anderson, Cap d'Antibes, France, giving explanation for interruption of BBC broadcast talk on India on 29 Jan [carbon].

Dates: 09 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Mar 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/9
Scope and Contents

Letter from Alan Dawnay, BBC to WSC, asking if he would be willing to contribute to special programme on the Dardanelles Campaign.

Dates: 22 Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Mar 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249/10
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Violet Pearman], Private Secretary to WSC to Alan Dawnay, BBC, regretting that WSC was unable to contribute to special programme on the Dardanelles Campaign [carbon].

Dates: 25 Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open