This subseries includes interviews, typescripts, drafts, transcripts, or photocopies of Kermode interviews with different people, primarily for the BBC
Folders are arranged in chronological order.
Typescript with autograph corrections for a BBC broadcast produced by Gilbert Phelps and prerecorded on October 1, 1952; 8 pp.
Transcript of a BBC broadcast, May 25, 1955.
Transcript with autograph notes of a broadcast by Kermode and Ian Fletcher; together with Lord Herbert and the Poetry of Platonism. Also included are several pages of manuscript notes by Kermode for the BBC broadcast, June 19, 1955.
Typescript drafts with autograph corrections, and a letter from the series producer, D. S Carne-Ross, dated January 9, 1956, listing changes that need to be made to the broadcast.
Two copies each of the BBC transcript of the broadcasts transmitted on October 27 and November 3, 1956, respectively.
Transcript of a BBC broadcast recorded March 6, 1957; 9 pp.
Transcript of a BBC broadcast transmitted December 29, 1957; two copies, one with pencil drawings, 7 pp.
Transcript with autograph corrections of a BBC broadcast transmitted December 8, 1958; 13 pp. Also included is an autograph note signed by D. S. Carne-Ross.
Transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 2, 1959 for a BBC; 22 pp.
This is a series of telediphone interviews between Kermode and several novelists which was transmitted by the BBC Folders also include Kermode's introduction to the series. The series was produced by D. S. Carne-Ross.
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated Septembermber 28, 1961; two copies, 7 pp.
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated September 29, 1961; two copies, 12 pp each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Compton Burnett to Sillitoe".
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated September 29, 1961; two copies, 11 pp. each.
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated October 3, 1961; two copies, 10 pp. each; and one typewritten page titled "Link Wilson and Compton Burnett".
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated October 4, 1961; two copies, 13 pp. each; and 2 typewritten pp. one is headed "Link Snow to Wain" and the other "Link Sillitoe and Snow".
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated October 27, 1961; two copies, 7 pp. each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Murdoch and Greene".
Transcript of a telediphone recording dated November 11, 1961; 9 pp.
Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated November 11, 1961; two copies, 8 pp. each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Wain to Spark".
Carbon typescript of Kermode's introduction to the series; 3 pp.
Includes original BBC transcripts of interviews by Kermode for a series of four broadcasts, each with a different title and three different interviewees. Also included are Kermode's final drafts for the interviews, correspondence between Kermode and the interviewees, or the BBC and the interviewees, discussing ideas prior to the talks. The series was produced by Helen Arbuthnot.
Programme 1. Introduction and original transcripts of interviews of Kermode and Harold Rosenberg, Ernst Gombrich, and Jacques Barzun. The program was transmitted October 30, 1963.
Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and two copies of a transcript of a telediphone interview recorded April 25, 1963.
Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Includes a draft and three copies of a transcript of a telediphone interview recorded April 26, 1963.
Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Included are three copies of a transcript, a draft, and one page of manuscript notes of a telediphone interview, recorded May 10, 1963.
Programme 2. Transcripts of a talk between Frank Kermode and Deryck Cooke, Stephen Spender, Donald Davie, and M. I. Finley. The program was transmitted November 6, 1963.
Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 6, 1963.
Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and three copies of a transcript of a telediphone recording dated May 10, 1963.
Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft and a transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 5, 1963; 9 pp.
Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and two copies of a telediphone recording dated June 5, 1963; 13 pp.
Programme 3. Original transcripts and draft with autograph corrections of a talk between Frank Kermode and H. W. R. Wade, Austin Farrer, A. B. Pippard, and J. M. Cameron. The program was transmitted November 15, 1963. (The source interview with Farrer is absent).
Source interview for Ceremonial Survival --. Includes a draft and a 10 p. transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 13, 1963.
Source interview for Ceremonial Survival. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 6, 1963.
Source interview for Ceremonial Survival. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded in May 1963.
Original transcripts and draft with autograph corrections of a talk between Frank Kermode and Max Gluckman, John Strachey, and H. R. Trevor Roper; undated.
Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 17, 1963.
Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 26, 1963.
Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a typescript draft of a telediphone recording, undated.
Includes notes for the Tradition series of programs which include the introduction, notes on publicity and other typed or manuscript notes, and autograph notes by Helen Arbuthnot. Also included is a transcript of a telediphone recording between Michael Elliott and John Powell.
Includes correspondence regarding the Tradition between either Kermode and the interviewees or the BBC and the interviewees discussing ideas prior to the telephone interviews.
Draft scheme for the program and correspondence with the Producer of the Talks Department at the BBC
This is a series of radio interviews and talks by Kermode. Included is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Waddington recorded September 18; and publisher's proofs of essays.
Radio transmission which was broadcast on December 14; draft.
Photocopy of a draft for a radio transmission which was broadcast November 3. Also included is correspondence regarding or in response to the broadcast.
Camera script for a transmission on March 21 discussed by Kermode; two copies.
Transcript of a program dialogue for an anniversary feature on D. H. Lawrence, dated February 20; 8 pp.; and related correspondence.
Analyzing the Lord's Prayer, by Kermode, produced by the Rev. Hubert Hoskins for the BBC; transcript, dated March 18, 7 pp., and related correspondence.
Film typescript dated September 14, 1982; 19 pp.; together with the original typescript, carbon typescript, notes and correspondence.
Carbon typescript outlining Kermode's personal musical tastes, with autograph corrections; 5 pp.
Open University broadcast, carbon typescript with autograph corrections; 9 pp.
Original typescript with autograph corrections, and carbon typescript of a BBC Overseas Service broadcast.