The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Royal Academy of Arts

• Royal Academy annual dinner at Burlington House: reply to proposal of toast to the guests by Sir Charles Wheeler, and proposal of toast to the Academy
• First transmission: 9.00 pm 28/4/65 BBC Home Service
• Duration (whole programme): 60 minutes
• Presenter: Robert Hudson
• Transcript: not found at BBC Written Archives under Royal Academy of Art (title used in programme index)

The Concert Interval

• Interview
• First transmission: 3.35 pm 4/7/65 BBC Third Programme
• Duration (whole programme): 15 minutes
• Presenter: Julian Budden
• Transcript: not found at BBC Written Archives under Concert Interval (title used in programme index)

Oral History Interview for the John F. Kennedy Library

• Interview with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, for the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project
• Recording date: 12 April 1965
• Transcript: Berlin Papers; John F. Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Dorchester, Massachusetts 02125, USA (see MS 78-356 in National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, Catalog 1978) – to whom version edited by Henry Hardy has been sent
• Recording: John F. Kennedy Library (copy at BLSA: Tape H3760)

Some Sources of Romanticism: the six A. W. Mellon Lectures (sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation), delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March–April 1965 (there is a link to a recording of each lecture in the titles below):

1. In Search of a Definition
2. The First Attack on Enlightenment
3. The True Fathers of Romanticism
4. The Restrained Romantics
5. Unbridled Romanticism
6. The Lasting Effects

• Recording dates: 14/3, 21/3, 28/3, 4/4, 11/4, 18/4/65
• First transmission: 7.55 pm 10/8, 8.00 pm 16/8, 7.55 pm 23/8, 7.30 pm 29/8, 7.30 pm 5/9, 7.30 pm 12/9/66 BBC Third Programme
• Durations: 51 minutes 26 seconds, 57 minutes 45 seconds, 53 minutes 20 seconds, 58 minutes 7 seconds, 58 minutes 20 seconds, 69 minutes 32 seconds
• Repeat(s): 5/10, 9/10, 17/10, 24/10, 30/10, 6/11/67 BBC Third Programme (all at 7.30 pm); 1975 in Australia (without IB’s approval); 8.15 pm 6/6, 10.00 pm 12/6/89 etc. BBC Radio 3 in An Evening with Sir Isaiah Berlin (B.79)
• Producer: Helen Rapp
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T31558–63; BLSA Tapes T132R, T274W, T272W, T10191W, T256W, T275W
• Listen to the recordings using the links in the numbered list #1-#6 above

See also Bib.243, The Roots of Romanticism

Two Enemies of the Enlightenment:

The First Onslaught: J. G. Hamann and his Disciples

• Woodbridge Lecture, Columbia University, New York
• Recording date: (26?) October 1965
• Duration: 58 minutes 30 seconds
• Series: ‘Two Enemies of the Enlightenment’ (four lectures by IB, of which this was the 2nd; no recording of the 1st or 4th has been found)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (edited) (View Document, below)
• Recording: BLSA Tape T11065W and available here; OU podcast available here
• Publication: cf. The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism (London, 1993: John Murray) (Bib.212)

Contribution to Julian Huxley (ed.), Aldous Huxley (London, 1965: Chatto and Windus), 144–53

• repr. as ‘Aldous Huxley’ in Personal Impressions

Contribution to Ian Kemp (ed.), Michael Tippett: A Symposium on his 60th Birthday (London, 1965: Faber), 62–3

• repr. as ‘The Depth of Michael Tippett’ in Bib.299

‘Herder and the Enlightenment’, in Earl R. Wasserman (ed.), Aspects of the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore, 1965: Johns Hopkins Press), 47–104

• repr. as ‘J. G. Herder’, Encounter 25 no. 1 (July 1965), 29–48, no. 2 (August 1965), 42–51
• repr. in revised form in Vico and Herder, The Proper Study of Mankind and Three Critics of the Enlightenment
• trans. Spanish

(with H. L. A. Hart) ‘Postgraduate Studies in Oxford’, in University of Oxford, Commission of Inquiry [‘The Franks Commission’]: Evidence, part 11, Individuals (Oxford, 1965: Oxford University Press), 12–16

‘Sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ (a much expanded version of ‘Appendix: On Vico’s Epistemology’ in 79), Lettere italiane 17 (1965), 420–31

• repr. as ‘Appendice sulla teoria del Vico circa la conoscenza storica’ in Vittore Branca (ed.), Sensibilità e razionalità nel settecento (Florence, 1967: Sansoni)
• repr. in revised form as ‘Vico’s Theory of Knowledge and its Sources’ in Vico and Herder and Three Critics of the Enlightenment

Review of C. P. Courtney, Montesquieu and Burke, Modern Language Review 60 (1965), 449–52

‘A Great Russian Writer’, review of Osip Mandelstam, The Prose of Osip Mandelstam: The Noise of Time; Theodosia; The Egyptian Stamp, trans. and ed. Clarence Brown (Princeton, 1965: Princeton University Press), New York Review of Books, 23 December 1965, 3–4

• repr. in The Soviet Mind

‘The Thought of de Tocqueville’, review of Jack Lively, The Social and Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, History 50 (1965), 199–206

‘Russian “Philosophy” ’

• Review of Russian Philosophy, ed. James M. Edie and others: (mostly uncorrected) transcript of dictation – c.December 1965

Julian Budden, ‘The Concert Interval’, Network 3, 4 July 1965 (no recording or transcript survives?)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Oral History Interview on Kennedy for the John F. Kennedy Library, 12 April 1965

• edited and shortened version published in New York Review of Books, 22 October 1998, 31–7, as ‘On JFK’

Eliot, T. S., To Criticize the Critic (London, 1965: Faber), 137

McCloskey, H. J., ‘A Critique of the Ideals of Liberty’, Mind 74 (1965), 483–508

Murphy, G. G. S., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin on the Concept of Scientific History: A Comment’, History and Theory 4 (1965), 234–43

Pollard, Sydney, ‘Economic History – A Science of Society?’, Past and Present 30 (April 1965), 3–22