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ReferencePPA/BRITISH_BROADCASTING_CORPORATION

Title

Correspondence between Peter Pears and British Broadcasting Corporation

Date1933-1986

Description1 file of 86 items containing photocopies of Pears' correspondence with the BBC between 1933 and 1960. Also contains original letters concerning work and script for Akathistos by Dr. Egon Wellez.
1 file of 63 items containing original correpondence between Pears and the BBC between 1975 and 1984. Files concerning BBC External Services, Transcripton Services, Sound Archive recordings, Desert Island Discs, and various contributions to radio and television. Also includes ticket to 'With Great Pleasure on BBC Radio 4'.
1 file of 26 items containing original correspondence between Pears and the BBC between 1973 and the early 1980s concerning the Russian Service, narration for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the Janet Craxton Memorial Fund among other things. Also contains some photocopied correspondence and a copy of 'The Art of Peter Pears, 1985'.
1 file of 6 items containing photocopies of correspondence bettween Pears and the BBC between 1961 and 1986.

Extent1 box

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