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Typescript of BBC radio programme 'Tomorrow's Doomsday. A biographical symposium to mark the centenary of the death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803-1849' by John Keir Cross and Montague Shaw.

ref. 10890 — Pencil note gives date of transmission on the BBC Third Programme as 29 January 1949. Folio ii 16 pp. Text clear and complete. Fair on aged and spotted paper. First page headed in pencil 'Mr. John Keir Cross' and with the following also in pencil at foot: 'Transmission: Sat. 29th January 1949. 7.45-8.25 p.m. Third Prog.' First two pages give details of the production including the names of the producer Noel Iliff and of the seven 'Speakers': Alan Wheatley Laidman Browne Valentine Dyall Patricia Jessel Anthony Jacob Robert Marsden and Raf de la Torre. Second page includes instructions regarding the characters of the 'Voices' and a 'Production Suggestion'. The text of the piece is on the following sixteen paginated pages. The script is original in both senses of the word and not merely a selection from the poet. The characters include 'The Beddoes Voice: not a characterisation - a stylised reading voice capable of considerable range of feeling' 'Thomas Forbes Kelsall: quiet attractive' and 'Encyclopaedia Voice: academic and detached'. [Pencil note gives date of transmission on the BBC Third Programme as 29 January 1949.] unknown