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Broadcasts

The series includes material relating to a BBC broadcast of The Anathemata in 1954, produced by Douglas Cleverdon, and the introduction to a broadcast of The Anathemata entitled 'Wales and the monarchy of Britain', 1953.

Cleverdon, Douglas

Broadcasts

The series includes two broadcast scripts of In Parenthesis which was adapted for radio and produced by Douglas Cleverdon. It was broadcast four times on the BBC Third Progamme, together with specially composed music by Elizabeth Poston. The first broadcast script is for 1942 and the second [1946]. The series also includes a manuscript and typescript copy of David Jones' introduction to the broadcast, [1946] and [1964]. Also there is a script of a programme about Welsh poetry, 1943, in which a selection of In Parenthesis was read. There are cover notes by Harman Grisewood in each file. See also David Blamires, David Jones: Artist and Writer, 1971 p. 112.

Cleverdon, Douglas

The Fatigue

The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'The Fatigue' and its introduction, proofs, and scripts for a broadcast reading.
'The Fatigue' was privately printed by friends for David Jones' 70th birthday, on 1 November 1965. David Jones has dated the introduction to the poem August 18th 1965 on page 26. The BBC Third Programme (produced by Douglas Cleverdon) recorded David Jones reading this poem in March 1965. David Jones notes in these files that the poem was 'read on June 3rd 1964 for television' and 'read on Oct. 15 1964 for Brit[ish] Council for Harvard' [library of recordings]. It appears that this 'fragment' was written, or adapted from an earlier work, by David Jones following a request for material to be recorded.

Cleverdon, Douglas