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Ref NoDM1294/19/3
TitleFilm and TV tie-ins general file
DescriptionFilm and TV tie-ins general file, 1972-1973, 1981:

Judith Burnley (Fiction Editor, Penguin Books Ltd.) correspondence file. Includes a letter from Melvyn Bragg concerning a proposed new weekly BBC television programme on current books; correspondence with Joanna Colenbrander and Martin Lisemore (Producer, Classics Serials, BBC) concerning the rights to 'A Pin to See the Peep Show'; a letter to Colin Nears (BBC) concerning the screening of 'Cheri'; internal correspondence concerning a TV tie-in with a nine-part series of programmes based on the loves of Napoleon and E.J. Knapton's 'Empress Josephine'; lists of weekly TV and Radio tie-ins; correspondence concerning the London Weekend Television series 'Cover to Cover'; correspondence with Visual Programme Systems Ltd. concerning Emile de Antonio's 'Mailhouse'; Penguin's 1974 film and TV tie-in gift sets; the broadcasting of three Penguin books ('The Virgin and the Gypsy', 'My Cousin Rachel' and 'Burmese Days') on BBC Radio 4's 'A Book at Bed-time'; a copy of a memorandum of agreement between Harvard University Press and Penguin Books Ltd. concerning the rights to Ernest John Knapton's 'The Empress Josephine', 1964, with correspondence discussion the revertion of rights to Harvard University Press in 1981.

Also includes a transcript of a 'Woman in Town' radio programme on BBC Radio London broadcast on 12 April 1973 discussing Penguin's reissue of Francois Sagan's 'Sunlight on Cold Water'; a publicity photograph of W. Faulkner; and copies of 'PCR' (Production Report and Professional Casting Report) 1973-1974, and 'Filmlog' 1973.
Date1972-1981
FormatManuscript
Extent1 file
Access ConditionsPrior permission must be obtained from Penguin Books Ltd. Please ask Special Collections for further information.
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