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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
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
1 - Actuality Reel 1, McHugh (1) - 18 May 1965
2 - Actuality Reel 2, McHugh (2) - 18 May 1965
3 - Actuality Reel 3, McHugh (3) - 18 May 1965
4 - Actuality Reel 4 McHugh (4) - 18 May 1965
5 - Actuality Reel 5 McHugh (5) - c. 1965
6 - Actuality reel 6 'Assembled Irishmen' (1) - c. 1965
7 - Actuality reel 7 'Assembled Irishmen' (2) - c. 1965
8 - Actuality reel 8 Kevin and Tony (1) - 26 February 1965
9 - Actuality reel 10 Kevin and Tony (2) - c. 1965
10 - Actuality reel 11 Kevin and Tony (3) - c. 1965
11 - Actuality reel 12 McHugh (6) - c. 1965
12 - Actuality reel 13 Tony Crumlin (1) - c. 1965
13 - Actuality reel 14 Tony Crumlin (2) - c. 1965
14 - Actuality reel 15 Tony Crumlin (3) - c. 1965
15 - Actuality reel 16 Tony Crumlin (4) - c. 1965
16 - Actuality reel 19 Tony Crumlin (5) - c. 1965
17 - Actuality reel 20 Tony Crumlin (6) - c. 1965
18 - Actuality reel 21 Tony Crumlin (7) - c. 1965
19 - Actuality reel 22 Martin Kilderry (1) - c. 1965
20 - Actuality reel 23 Martin Kilderry (2) - c. 1965
21 - Actuality reel 24 Martin Kilderry (3) - c. 1965
22 - Actuality reel 25 Cait Mulkerin (1) - c. 1965
23 - Actuality reel 26 Cait Mulkerin (2) - C. 1965
24 - Actuality reel 27 Pat Mulkerin (1) - c. 1965
25 - Actuality reel 28 Pat Mulkerin (2) and Cait Mulkerin (3) - c. 1965
26 - Actuality reel 29 Pat Mulkerin (3) and Cait Mulkerin (4) - c. 1965
27 - Actuality reel 30 Pat Mulkerin (4) and Tony Crumlin (8) - c. 1965
28 - Actuality reel 31 Tony Crumlin (9) - c. 1965
29 - Actuality reel 32 Tony Crumlin (10) - c. 1965
30 - Actuality reel 33 McHugh (7) - c. 1965
31 - Actuality reel 34 McHugh (8) - c. 1965
32 - Actuality reel 35 Tony Crumlin (11) - c. 1965
33 - Actuality reel 36 Tony Crumlin (12) - c. 1965
34 - Actuality reel 37 Tony Crumlin (13) - 21 June 1965
35 - Actuality reel 38 Tony Crumlin (14) - 21 June 1965
36 - Actuality reel 39 Tony Crumlin (15) - 21 June 1965
37 - Actuality reel 41 Tony Crumlin (16) - c. 1965
38 - Actuality reel 42 Tony Crumlin (17) - c. 1965
39 - Actuality reel 43 Tony Crumlin (18) - 22 June 1965
40 - Actuality reel 44 Tony Crumlin (19) - 22 June 1965
41 - Actuality reel 45 Tony Crumlin (20) - 22 June 1965
42 - Actuality reel 46 Tony Crumlin (21) - 22 June 1965
43 - Actuality reel 47 Tony Crumlin (22) - 22 June 1965
44 - Actuality reel 47A Bartly (1) and friend - 23 February 1965
45 - Actuality reel un-numbered [47B] Bartly (2) with Tony Crumlin (23) - 23 March 1965
46 - Actuality reel 48 Bartly (3) - c. 1965
47 - Actuality reel 49 Bartly (4) - c. 1965
48 - Actuality reel 50 Bartly (5) - c. 1965
49 - Actuality reel 52 Bartly (6) with Crumlin (23) and McHugh (9) - June 1965
50 - Actuality reel 60 [1] McHugh (10) - c. 1965
51 - Actuality reel 60 [2] McHugh (11) and other men - c. 1965
52 - Actuality reel 61 McHugh (12) - c. 1965
53 - Actuality reel 62 McHugh (13) - c. 1965
54 - Actuality reel 63 McHugh (14) - c. 1965
55 - Actuality reel 64 McHugh (15) - c. 1965
56 - Actuality reel 65 McHugh (16) and friends - c. 1965
57 - Actuality reel 66 McHugh (17) - c. 1965
58 - Actuality reel 67 McHugh (18) - 26 June 1965
59 - Actuality reel 68 McHugh (19) - c. 1965
60 - Actuality reel 70 McHugh (20) and Mrs McHugh (1) - c. 1965
61 - Actuality reel 71 Brian and Paul (1) - 22 August 1965
62 - Actuality reel 72 Tony Crumlin (24), Paul and Brian (2) - 22 August 1965
63 - Actuality reel un-numbered McHugh (21) - c. 1965
64 - Takes of songs - 'Willy Reilly' and 'Farewell to Old Ireland' - 02 October 1965
65 - Takes of songs - 'Farewell to Old Ireland' and 'Charley Hill's Old Slope' - 02 October 1965
66 - Actuality assembly reel 2 - 01 September 1965
67 - Actuality assembly reel 2A - 01 September 1965
68 - Actuality assembly reel 3A - 30 September 1965
69 - Actuality assembly reel 4A - 02 September 1965
70 - Actuality assembly reel 4B - 02 September 1965
71 - Actuality assembly reel 5 - 30 September 1965
72 - Actuality assembly reel 5A - 30 September 1965
73 - Actuality assembly reel 6 - 30 September 1965
74 - Actuality assembly reel 6A - 01 October 1965
75 - Actuality assembly reel 7 - c. 1965
76 - Actuality assembly reel 7A - c. 1965
77 - Actuality assembly reel 7B - c. 1965
78 - Actuality assembly reel 7C - 11 October 1965
79 - Actuality assembly reel 8 - 11 October 1965
80 - Actuality assembly reel 8B - 13 October 1965
81 - Actuality assembly reel 9 - 14 October 1965
82 - Actuality assembly reel 9A - 14 October 1965
83 - Actuality assembly reel 10 - 15 October 1965
84 - Actuality assembly reel 10A - 15 October 1965
85 - Actuality assembly reel 10B - c. 1965
86 - Actuality assembly reel 11 - 08 November 1965
87 - Actuality assembly reel 11A - 24 November 1965
88 - Actuality assembly reel 12 - 24 November 1965
89 - Actuality assembly reel 12A - 10 December 1965
90 - Actuality assembly reel 13 - 22 September 1965
91 - Actuality assembly reel 14 - 10 January 1966
92 - Actuality assembly reel 14A - c. 1965
93 - Actuality assembly reel 15 - 10 January 1966
94 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (1) - c. 1965
A - Original reel to reel tape - c. 1965
B - 1 tape box - c. 1965
C - CD Rom listening copy - c. 1965
95 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (2) - 10 December 1965
96 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (3) - 21 September 1965
97 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (4) - 21 September 1965
98 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (5) - 01 September 1965
99 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (6) - 22 September 1965
100 - Actuality assembly reel un-numbered (7) - 22 September 1965
101 - Takes of songs - 'Farewell to Old Ireland' and 'Willy Reilly' - c. 1965
102 - Takes of songs - Stewart family - 29 September 1965
103 - Takes of songs - 'Willy Reilly' and 'Farewell to Old Ireland', "Reel A" - c. 1965
104 - Takes of songs - 'Farewell to Old Ireland', "Reel B" - 13 October 1965
105 - Takes of songs - 'Farewell to Old Ireland', "Songs for The Crack" (1) - c. 1965
106 - Takes of songs - 'Willy Reilly' and 'Farewell to Old Ireland', "Songs for The Crack" (2) - c. 1965
107 - Takes of songs - 'The Rambler From Clare', 'Jack of All Trades', 'Driving the Tunnel', 'Rocks of Baun' - c. 1965
108 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel One" - 11 June 1965
109 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Two" - 11 June 1965
110 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Three" - 11 June 1965
111 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Four" - 11 June 1965
112 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Five" - 11 June 1965
113 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Six" - 11 June 1965
114 - Takes of songs - "The Irishmen Reel Seven" - 11 June 1965
115 - Takes of songs, and actuality with the musicians - "The Irishmen Reel Eight" - 11 June 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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