Newscasts from W.V.T. to the B.B.C., 26 May 1943 - 19 Aug 1944,
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Newscasts from W.V.T. to the B.B.C., 26 May 1943 - 19 Aug 1944,
A small number of wartime radio scripts, 1943-4, including a script of an actual bombing raid over Berlin, 3 Sept 1943 [cf 16], a translation of a Gaelic radio programme, 21 April 1944, and a radio script, 'The Voice of France', July 1945.
Despatches and newscasts from W.V.T. to the B.B.C., Aug - Sept 1947, relating to the handover of power in India and to the riots there.
Background paper on India by Prof Sir Reginald Coupland, 23 July 1947; copies of secret daily intelligence summaries of the Delhi and Punjab Command, Oct 1947; and text of the speech of the president of India on the assumption of power, 15 Aug 1947.
Draft commentaries and scripts relating to the Royal Family including the Royal Tour of South Africa, 1947, the Royal Commonwealth Tour, 1954, and the Royal Family and the Media, [c. 1978], together with official programmes, order of events, etc.
Draft and corrected typescripts of two radio programmes, 'Return to India' and 'Return to Pakistan', 1952, together with draft programme lay-outs and transcripts of interviews.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of a variety of radio and T.V. programmes, 1946-76, including interviews with Sir Max Beerbohm, 1949 and Sir Thomas Beecham, 1959; scripts of a humorous radio series entitled 'How To Be Yourself', 1959; transcript of W.V.T.'s appearance as a guest on 'Desert Island Discs', 1952, and a script of a dramatised reconstruction of The Congress of Vienna in 1815 [?late 1950s].
Corrected typescript and incomplete manuscript draft of a work originally entitled 'A Ride Through Wales', eventually published as Madly in all Directions (1967).
Typescript of W.V.T.'s introduction to The Shell Guide to Wales (1969),
Draft foreword to a proposed book on Wales [mid x late 1970s]; outline of a suggested book on the Welsh [mid x late 1970s]; synopsis of a proposed book entitled 'The Great Walks of Wales' [?early 1980s] and synopsis of, and correspondence relating to, a proposed book provisionally entitled 'The Coast of Britain', 1984.
Menu cards and invitations to functions,
War despatches, 16 Dec 1943 - 4 May 1945, from W.V.T. to the B.B.C. covering the Anzio landings and subsequent campaigns in Italy, France and Germany.
War memorabilia, 1943-6, including photostat copies of combat report and operations book relating to a bombing raid over Berlin, 1943 [cf no 10] and a sheaf of papers belonging to William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') obtained by W.V.T. from a radio station in Hamburg in May 1945 [cf his despatch for 4 May in 4].