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MS 4000 - Charles Parker Archive - 1949 - 1994
1 - Personal papers and papers relating to Charles Parker's career
2 - Papers relating to BBC programmes and non BBC projects - 1949 - 1980
3 - Miscellaneous papers and publications on various subjects
4 - Charles Parker's Library
5 - Digitised Sound Recordings: Charles Parker Archive 'A Future For Ordinary Folk' - 1947 - 1978
6 - Sound recordings: programmes, projects and research material - 1955 - 1994
1 - Programmes and projects - BBC and non-BBC - 1955 - 1980
1 - BBC staff shows - 1955
1A - 'Each in His Own Way'/'Let the People Dance' - n.d. [1950s]
2 - 'Harvest the Sea' - 1956
3 - 'Stallion Eternity' - 1956
4 - 'Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year' - 1957
5 - 'A Child Speaks' - 1957-1959
6 - 'Darkie Hunt, Traveller' - 1958
7 - 'Man on the Brink' - 1957 - 1958
8 - 'The Ballad of John Axon', the first Radio Ballad - 1957 - 1958
9 - 'Coventry Nativity' - 1959 - 1961
10 - 'Hootenanny' - 1957 - 1958
11 - People Today: Interview with H.M. Cashmore - 1959 - 1962
12 - 'Torrents of Spring' - n.d. [1959]
13 - 'Bold Nelson's Praise' - 1959
14 - 'Song of a Road', the second Radio Ballad - 1959
15 - 'Meditation for Good Friday' - 1960
16 - 'The Potter's Gift' - 1960
17 - 'Singing the Fishing', the third Radio Ballad - 1960 - 1961
18 - 'The Jewellery': An Impression of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter - 1961
19 - 'The Big Hewer', the fourth Radio Ballad - 1961
20 - 'Dog in a Manger' - 1961 - 1963
21 - 'Singing English' - 1961
22 - 'Cry from the Cut' - 1962
23 - 'The Body Blow', the fifth Radio Ballad - 1962
24 - 'St Peter at Saltley' - 30 June 1962
25 - 'Not Known in Denmark St' - 1962
26 - 'The Maker and the Tool' - 1962
27 - 'The Lonesome Train' - 15 September 1962
28 - 'In a Blind Wilderness' - 1962
29 - 'On the Edge', the sixth Radio Ballad - 1958 - 1965
30 - 'I Chose Where To Stand: The Life of Else Rosenfeld' - 1963
1 - 1/23: Berlin Childhood - 25 April 1963
2 - 2/23: Growing Up - 25 April 1963
3 - 3/23: War - 26 April 1963
4 - 4/23: Marriage - 26 April 1963
5 - 5/23: Quakern - 29 April 1963
6 - 6/23: Women's Prison - 29 April 1963
7 - 7/23: A Life Reclaimed - 01 May 1963
8 - 8/23: Mein Kampf - 01 May 1963
9 - 9/23: The Nazi Regime - 01 May 1963
10 - 10/23: False Witness - 01 May 1963
11 - 11/23: The New Justice - 10 May 1963
12 - 12/23: The Terror Begins - 1963
13 - 13/23: Where To Go? - 1963
14 - 14/23: Seperation - 13 May 1963
15 - 15/23: Yellow Star - 13 May 1963
16 - 16/23 [Deportations] - 1963
17 - 17/23 [Ghetto] - 1963
18 - 18/23: Underground - 17 May 1963
19 - 19/23: Uncle Karl - 1963
20 - 20/23 [Living in Hiding] - 1963
21 - 21/23: Frontier - 24 May 1963
22 - 22/23: Refugee - 24 May 1963
23 - 23/23: Reunion - 27 May 1963
24 - Introduction to Life of Else Rosenfeld - 26 April 1963
25 - 1/2/3 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
26 - 4/5/6 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
27 - 7/8/9 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
28 - 10/11/12 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
29 - 12 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
30 - 13/14/15 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
31 - 15 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
32 - 16/17/18 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
33 - 19/20/21 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
34 - 22 & 23 Else Rosenfeld Actuality - 1963
35 - Parts 1 & 2 - 1963
36 - Parts 3 & 4 - 1963
37 - Parts 5 & 6 - 1963
38 - Parts 7 & 8 - 1963
39 - Parts 9 & 10 - 1963
40 - Parts 11 & 12 - 1963
41 - Parts 13 & 14 - 1963
42 - Parts 15 & 16 - 1963
43 - Parts 17 & 18 - 1963
44 - Parts 19 & 20 - 1963
45 - Parts 21 & 22 - 1963
46 - Part 23 - 1963
47 - Else Rosenfeld and Cecilia Costello actualities - 1963
31 - 'The Fight Game', the seventh Radio Ballad - 1963
32 - 'Just up our Street' - 1963
33 - 'The Travelling People', the eighth Radio Ballad - 1963 - 1964
33A - 'The Long Journey' - 1963 - 1970
34 - 'Instant Salvation' - 1964
35 - 'Blessed Assurance' - 1964 - 1965
36 - 'Way of Life: New Wine into Old Bottles' - 1964
36A - 'The Christian Religion and its Philosophy' - 1964
37 - 'The Colony' - 1965
38 - 'Landmarks' - 1964 - 1965
39 - 'The Song Carriers' - 1965
40 - 'Folk Song and Ballad' - 1965
41 - 'Theatre in the Future' and 'Theatre and Community' - 1965
42 - 'The Crack', or 'The Irishmen' - 1965
43 - 'Modern Love Songs' - 1960-1965
44 - 'To Make a Fisherman' - 1965
45 - 'Strike!' - 1965
46 - 'Business as Usual' - 1965
47 - 'The Abbey of the English' - 1966
48 - 'Romeo and Juliet' - 1966
49 - 'Books, Plays, Poems' - 1966
50 - 'The Making of the Midlander' - 1966-1967
51 - 'More Equal than Others' - 1966
52 - 'She Rode on a Horse Naked' - 1967
53 - 'Vox Pop' - 1967
54 - 'BD8/The Blind Set' - 1965-1968
55 - 'Festival of Fools' - 1966 - 1971
55A - 'The Funny Rigs of Good and Tenderhearted Masters' - 1967 - 1969
56 - 'Asian Teenager' - 1968
57 - 'Peace of Mind' - 1968
57A - 'Speak' - 1966-1968
58 - 'We Lived Across the River' - 1969
59 - Musical about the slave trade - 1969
60 - 'Under an Apple Tree' - 1969 - 1970
61 - 'Gift of the Gab' - 1969
62 - 'No Surrender' - 1969-1973
63 - 'Revolt on the Campus' - 1970
64 - 'Off Limits - A Report from London to Vietnam' - 1969 - 1975
65 - 'Long March of Everyman' - 1971 - 1972
66 - 'Battle of St Ann's' - 1971
67 - 'The Tape Recorder and the Oral Tradition' - 1971
68 - 'The Iron Box' - 1970-1972
69 - 'Snowballs in Calcutta' - 1971-1972
70 - 'Siege in Ceylon' - 1972
71 - 'A Place Way Out'/'White Settlers' - 1971-1972
72 - 'Shoals of Herring' - July 1972
73 - York Mystery Plays - 1973
73A - 'Shelton Bar' - 1973
74 - 'Battle of Saltley Gate' / 'Folk Songs, Pop - Rock Music - 1973 -1975
75 - 'Collier Laddie' - 1974
75A - 'Viva Chile' - 1974 - 1975
76 - 'Passage West' - 1975
77 - 'Womankind' - 1976
78 - 'The Great Divide' / 'Prince Edward Island & Atlantic Migration' - 1976 - 1977
79 - 'Caught Up In Two Minds' - 1977 - 1978
80 - 'Growing up in Tower Hamlets' - 1977 - 1978
81 - 'Dr Healey's Casebook' - 1977
82 - You've got NOWT / No Time to Be Young / Time for Reflection - 1979 - 1980
2 - Research interests: music, drama, and speech - 1951 - 1988
3 - Research interests: politics and local history - 1957 - 1978
4 - Copies of TV and radio programmes - 1950 - 1978
5 - Remembering Charles Parker and the Radio Ballads: programmes, events, and interviews - 1981 - 1993
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