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British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters)

 Organization

Staff Only

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

File titled 'Scientists' Responsibility', 1967-1970

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/10/48
Scope and Contents

Contains various magazine articles regarding scientific ethics and correspondence with various bodies, including the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, a draft typescript of 'The Control of Reproduction' and a typescript of 'Towards Tomorrow: Assault on Life' (transmitted on BBC1 on 07 December 1967).

Dates: 1967-1970
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington / Subject files in A-Z order

General: 1944, 1944

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/17
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, Henry Sloane Coffin, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), Violet Markham, John H Duncan, George Freeland Barbour and Cyril Forster Garbett (the Archbishop of York). Subjects include John Baillie's BBC broadcasts and Church of Scotland and YMCA matters.

Dates: 1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: 1950-1951, 1950-1951

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Zwinglius Frank Willis, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to the erection of a gravestone for John Baillie's cousin, Elizabeth Catherine Gallant, BBC broadcasts, biographical information on Alexander Martin, and a visit to France.

Dates: 1950-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: early 1946, 1946

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/23
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, George Arthur Buttrick, Bertram Christian, David Smith Cairns, Melville Dinwoodie (BBC), and Henry Pitney Van Dusen. Also correspondence relating to personal finance.

Dates: 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: late 1943, 1943

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/16
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, the Duke of Montrose, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), George Simpson Duncan, Lewis Legertwood Legg Cameron and Sir Neil John Kennedy Cochran-Patrick. Much of the correspondence relates to Church of Scotland business, particularly visits to churches and congregations as Moderator as well as to John Baillie's BBC radio broadcasts.

Dates: 1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

'Great Men of Science. No: 12 - "Pasteur" '. BBC Radio, 1964

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/2/F.110
Scope and Contents

The material consists of duplicated transcript for lecture 'Great Men of Science. No: 12 - "Pasteur"' by Martin Rivers Pollock produced for the BBC, 1964. Recorded 11th December 1964 and broadcast 20th-24th December 1964.

Dates: 1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION F: LECTURES AND BROADCASTS / BROADCASTS

John Chilembwe and the 1915 Rising. Miscellaneous and manuscripts, c 1896-1980

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/5
Scope and Contents
  1. 1915 Rising BBC Programme. Correspondence between G. Shepperosn and Michael Kittermaster, 1979-1980.
  2. Article ? Entitled "John Chilembwe – the Yao Native Messenger to the US".
  3. Newspaper Cuttings, 1959-1972.
  4. Photographs: John Chilembwe and others, c 1896-1910. K.A.R. 1915.
Dates: c 1896-1980
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 14: Material relating to John Chilembwe and the Chilembwe Rising

Letter to George Reginald Barnes from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 10 June 1939

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L10
Scope and Contents

Letter, 10 June 1939, Sir Donald Francis Tovey to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Invitation to suggest a subject for the National Lecture. Typescript photocopy.

Dates: 10 June 1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1931

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L250
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1931], Donald Tovey to Mary Grierson. Suggestion that the B.B.C. should take over one of the Opera nights. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 20 June 1934

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L274
Scope and Contents

Letter, 20 June 1934, Czechoslovakia, Donald Tovey to Mary Grierson. Plans for forthcoming concert and details of the B.B.C's involvement. Holograph signed.

Dates: 20 June 1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

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