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BBC Written Archives Centre
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Peppard Road
Caversham Park
Reading
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RG4 8TZ
Telephone: 020 8008 5661
Fax: 0118 946 1145
Email: heritage@bbc.co.uk
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Closed: Christmas/New Year
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Collections information
Businesses (10)
- BBC Worldwide Ltd London
- British Broadcasting Corporation London;Bedford, Bedfordshire
- British Broadcasting Corporation: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
- British Broadcasting Corporation: Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire
- British Broadcasting Corporation: Midlands Region
- British Broadcasting Corporation: Radio 3
- British Broadcasting Corporation: Scotland
- British Broadcasting Corporation: World Service
- John Sharman, radio variety producer
- Tony Thorpe, set designer
Persons (49)
- Adams, Mary Grace, (1898-1984), civil servant and broadcaster
- Arlen, Michael, (1895-1956), writer, playwright and scriptwriter Bulgaria;Switzerland;Cannes, France;Edinburgh, Midlothian;Florence, Italy;London;Malvern, Worcestershire;New York, New York;Southport, Lancashire
- Baird, John Logie, (1888-1946), television pioneer
- Barker, Eric Leslie, (1912-1990), comedy actor
- Baxter, Joan Maureen, (b 1933), television producer Leicester, Leicestershire;London
- Baxter, Raymond Frederic, (1922-2006), television presenter and commentator
- Bell, Martin, (b 1942), BBC staff producer
- Bloom, Ursula, (1892-1984), novelist, biographer and journalist
- Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, (1889-1983), Knight Conductor
- Calder-Marshall, Arthur, (1908-1992), Author
- Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel, (1888-1957), writer
- Chaplin, Sidney 'Sid', (1916-1986), author, OBE
- Chuter-Ede, James Chuter, (1882-1965), 1st Baron Chuter Ede
- Clark, Sir John Beresford, (1902-1968), Knight, BBC Director of External Broadcasting
- Coxhead, Elizabeth, (1909-1979), novelist
- Delderfield, Ronald Frederick, (1912-1972), author
- Disher, Maurice Wilson, (1893-1969), Author and Critic
- Eckersley, Peter Pendleton, (1892-1963), broadcasting engineer
- Empson, William, (1906-1984), Poet and Professor of English Literature
- Goldie, Grace Wyndham, (1900-1986), television producer
- Hibberd, Stuart, (1893-1983), radio announcer
- Joelson, Ferdinand Stephen, (1893-1979), Editor Author Broadcaster and Publisher
- Kendrick, Barbara, (fl 1958-1969), BBC World Service producer
- Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett, (1903-1972), anthropologist
- Leon, Henry Cecil, (1902-1976), Novelist as Henry Cecil
- Lewis, Cecil Arthur, (1898-1997), Author
- Lingstrom, Freda, (1893-1989), BBC Television producer and executive Chelsea, Middlesex
- Liveing, Edward George Downing, (1895-1963), Author and Historian
- Lloyd, Innes, (1925-1991), television producer
- Lotbiniere, Anthony Alain Chartier Joly de, (1925-1995), television producer and director
- Lusty, Sir Robert Frith, (1909-1991), Knight, publisher
- Manning, Olivia Mary, (1908-1980), writer
- Milton, Ernest, (1890-1974), Actor Author
- Moseley, Sidney Alexander, (1888-1961), author and journalist
- Muir, Edwin, (1887-1959), poet and author
- Naughton, William John Francis, (1910-1992), Author and Playwright
- Pain, Nesta Florence, (fl 1942-1970), director of BBC radio drama
- Perkins, Geoffrey Howard, (1953-2008), comedy writer, performer and producer
- Pinter, Harold, (1930-2008), CBE, actor and playwright Hackney, Middlesex
- Reith, John Charles Walsham, (1889-1971), 1st Baron Reith
- Shaw, George Bernard, (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Sims, Monica Louie, (1925-2018), BBC editor and head of radio; film and television censor
- Singer, Aubrey, (1927-2007), television producer and executive
- Stapley, Olive Mary, (fl 1940-1980), broadcaster
- Stone, Christopher, (fl 1927-1960), broadcaster
- Swanzy, Henry Valentine L, (1915-2004), editor, broadcaster and BBC Producer
- Walcott, Sir Derek Alton, (1930-2017), Knight, poet and dramatist
- Wells, Herbert George, (1866-1946), novelist
- Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, (1908-1995), minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh
Diaries (10)
- Cannon, Gunda, (1984-1999), publicity officer for BBC German service
- Carman, Barry, (fl 1962-1987), freelance producer and writer
- Gaddum, C C, (fl 1935-1939), educationalist, scriptwriter and children's book photographer
- Girot, Eugene, (fl 1943-1946), sound engineer
- Marson, Richard, (fl 1963-2006), television editor
- Murray, Thea, (fl 1967-1982), Production Assistant, BBC TV Drama
- Nancarrow, Marion, (fl 1994-1999), drama producer
- Quinault, Rene James, (1913-2001), radio programme organiser
- Saxon, Barbara, (1959-1978), secretary at the BBC
- West, Peter EFA, (1962-1970), BBC engineer
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (1)
- NRA 31050 British Broadcasting Corporation
Accessions
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