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Contract detailing the terms of optioning The Lamberts from Andrew Motion.

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Telex messages about optioning the story from Andrew Motion and the negotiation of costs, with manuscript annotations.

Scope and Contents Material relating to Episode 11 of Softly, Softly: Task Force Series 7, titled 'Dorothy's Birthday', broadcast 5 November 1975 and produced by the BBC. The series is a police drama with experienced cop DCS Charlie Barlow and DS John Watt who lead a task force charged with tackling crimes in Thamesford. First amendment screenplay with annotations, Time magazine, 8 July 1974, Letters page from Time Out magazine, including a letter about the episode and Explanatory notes by Keith Dewhurst...

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Two notebooks containing a diary written by Keith Dewhurst before the production at the Cottesloe Theatre.

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Diary written during trip to Europe, dated November 1996 with research notes.

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Material relating to 'Bruno Walter', written around 1994 - 1996, but not performed.

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Material relating to 'The First of July' dating from c1960s - c1970s, not performed. Explanatory notes by Keith Dewhurst (Closed access), two different synopses and a draft prologue. Attached note: “All these thoughts became ‘The First of July’”, and a script, with handwritten annotations.

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Material relating to 'Into the World of Night' dating from c1980s, not performed. Explanatory notes by Keith Dewhurst (Closed) and script with handwritten annotations and additional handwritten pages.

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Material relating to '1940', not performed, c2000s. Explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst and script (Closed access).

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Explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst about the material (closed access).

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Material relating to 'Billy Budd', not released. Seven exercise books containing handwritten screenplay, selection of typescript and handwritten synopses and research notes, email to Keith Dewhurst from Frank Stirling, followed by notes on the Billy Budd screenplay, and draft script with handwritten pages and annotations (Script closed). See also 431/2/91.

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Handwritten.

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Two notebooks, containing notes on criminal activity in Spain, written in Madrid, June 1990. Also included are some handwritten notes by Dewhurst and a postcard with an image of the Costa Verde on the front. (One notebook Closed)

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Material relating to 'Sarah', not released, 1984. Outline for screenplay, dated April 1984, and handwritten outline for screenplay, dated April 1984. (Closed access)

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Notebook containing a handwritten draft of a section of ‘The History of Polly Bowler’, published by Greenheart Press, 2021, with annotations (also enclosed are three loose draft pages), with photocopied handwritten draft.

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Materials relating to the controversy around a proposed Falklands Play. Explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst relating to the cancellation of the production of a TV play by Ian Curteis on the Falklands, and a note from Ian Curteis dated July 23 2007, along with a printed copy of a fifteen-page section from Curteis’s website relating to his Falklands TV play. (Closed access)

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A series of confidential files from the BBC, relating to Joan Clark, with an accompanying explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst.

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Correspondence relating to 'Black Snow'. Explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst about the material (closed access).

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Two letters closed.

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Cast list with contact information for the play 'The Changing Room' by David Storey, first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1971. (Closed access)