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Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Bridson, D. G. 1910-

Title
Bridson mss., 1934-1980

Collection No.
LMC 1848

Extent
657 items

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
The Bridson mss., 1934-1980, consists of correspondence and writings of Douglas Geoffrey Bridson, 1910-1980, producer and author.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Douglas Geoffrey Bridson, 1910-1980, began his career in 1933 as a free-lance radio writer and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1935 as Feature Programmes Assistant in the North Region. He then moved to London in 1941 to become Overseas Features Editor, Assistant Head of Features following the War, and Programme Editor for Arts, Sciences, and Documentaries (Sound), from 1964-1967. In this latter position, Bridson was referred to as "the cultural boss of the BBC." D.G. Bridson retired from the BBC in May 1969, after more than 35 years and 800 broadcasts that carried his name.

Arrangement

The collection has been organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings; III. Miscellaneous; IV. Diaries; V. Press Clippings.

Scope and Content Note

The Bridson mss., 1934-1980, consists of correspondence and writings of Douglas Geoffrey Bridson, producer and author. The correspondents in the collection are chiefly writers whom Bridson recorded for broadcast during his career. Writings include original radio scripts by D.G. Bridson, Norman Cameron, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Kenneth Rexroth, as well as Bridson's manuscript for his autobiography Prospero and Ariel: The Rise and Fall of Radio (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971). A group of 186 "Listener reports" (later called: Audience research reports) for programs written or produced by Bridson, 1944-1969, a typescript chronological list of all Bridson's productions, Bridson's daily desk diaries, 1950-1980, and five scrapbook volumes of press clippings, 1934-1972, complete the collection.

Note on Indexing Term - "Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972": There is a separate folder of correspondence with Pound. Also included is Four Steps an original radio script written by Pound which was broadcast in 1958 and Letters to a Friend a selection from Pound letters to Richard Aldington, edited by Pound in 1955 but never broadcast.

• Indexing Terms

• The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

• • Names
  • British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Bridson, D. G. (Douglas G.), 1910-
  • Bridson, D. G. (Douglas G.), 1910- --Correspondence.
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
  • Bridson, D. G. (Douglas G.), 1910- Prospero and Ariel.
  • Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973.
  • Cameron, Norman, 1896-
  • Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
  • Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.
  • MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978.
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
  • Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
• • Topics
  • Dead Sea scrolls.
  • Radio producers and directors --Great Britain --Correspondence.
  • Radio plays.
  • Radio

Related Material

Bridson mss. II; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Administrative Information

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