File 16 - Radio and film plays

Manuscript and typescript drafts, many of them with manuscript annotations, of scripts and treatments of plays for radio and film by Niall Griffiths, together with associated notes by him, correspondence between him and producers, and guidelines for writers, relating to: ‘My bull Snowball’ (a BBC radio play by Niall Griffiths written as a prequel to ‘Runt’); ‘Stwffio/Stuffed’ (a screenplay by Niall Griffiths for a proposed film); ‘Driving home for Christmas’ (a BBC radio play for which Niall Griffiths wrote Episode 5; typescript copies of the scripts of Episodes 1-4 by other writers are also included); and ‘Siôn y Gof’ (a screenplay by Niall Griffiths for a proposed film based on his ‘Between The Dogs And The Crows’). Also included are research materials for ‘Siôn y Gof’, comprising typescript accounts of experts on the mines, history and communities of the Dylife area and the history of John Jones (‘Siôn y Gof’) with manuscript annotations by Niall Griffiths, transcripts of extracts from court records, printouts from websites and a press cutting about successful screenwriting.