The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Levin Interview

• First transmission: 7.40 pm 23/5/81 BBC2 Television
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Repeat(s): 4.50 pm 2/12/82 BBC2
• Series: The Levin Interviews
• Presenter: Bernard Levin
• Director: Christopher Lewis
• Producer: John Shearer
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC film library (NBS F105R); BLSA Tape V2660; soundtrack BLSA Tape 6408W

Conversations with Boris Pasternak

• Part of Maurice Bowra Memorial Lecture from Personal Impressions
• Recording date: [to come]
• First transmission: 10.15 pm 28/6/81 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Producer: Leonie Cohn/Helen Fry (LC in Radio Times, HF on contract)
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT41150; BLSA Tape T4197W (off-air)
• Publication: part of ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)

Conversations with Anna Akhmatova

• Part of Maurice Bowra Memorial Lecture from Personal Impressions
• Recording date: 4/8/81
• First transmission: 8.20 pm 27/8/81 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 20 minutes
• Producer: Leonie Cohn
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT41150; BLSA Tape 5916W (off-air)
• Publication: part of ‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions (London, 1980: Hogarth Press; New York, 1981: Viking; Oxford, 1982: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin)

For Teddy Kollek ([Jerusalem, 1981]: The Jerusalem Foundation), 7 pp.

Introduction and unattributed contributions to H. G. Nicholas (ed.), Washington Despatches 1941–45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy (London, 1981: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Chicago, 1981: Chicago University Press), vii–xiv

• introduction repr. in Flourishing

Translation, with Introduction, of Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country (London, 1981: Hogarth Press; New York, 1982: Viking; Harmondsworth, 1983: Penguin)

• See also the details of the recording of the National Theatre's production of the play in June 1981, B.69

Reply to Hans Aarsleff, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981, 7–8; letter, 3–16 June 1982, 5

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‘Russian Thought and the Slavophile Controversy’, review of Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought (From the Enlightenment to Marxism) and The Slavophile Controversy, Slavonic and East European Review 59 (1981), 572–86

• trans. Russian

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 6 December 1981, 25

‘Plea for a Library’ (letter), Jewish Chronicle, 25 December 1981, 16

Contributions to Sandra Martin and Roger Hall (eds), Where Were You? Memorable Events of the Twentieth Century (Toronto etc., 1981: Methuen)

• 119–20 (Pearl Harbor)
• 183–4 (Cuban Missile Crisis)
• 206–7 (Assassination of John F. Kennedy)
• 220 (Russian Revolution)
• 227–8 (Six-Day War); repr. as ‘Where Was I?’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)
• excerpts from first, second, third and last contributions trans. Spanish

‘How Russian and English Lines Can Get Crossed’ (letter), Guardian, 19 February 1981, 12

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‘In Einstein’s Opinion’ (letter), Observer, 24 May 1981, 16

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Alex Hamilton, Guardian, 17 February 1981, 9

Bernard Levin, ‘The Levin Interview’, BBC2 Television, 23 May 1981

• not published

Aarsleff, Hans, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981, 6–7

• reply by IB, ibid., 7–8
• letters from Aarsleff and IB, 3–16 June 1982, 5

Michael Biddiss, ‘The Nuremberg Trial: Two Exercises in Judgment’, Journal of Contemporary History 16 no. 3 [The Second World War: Part 2] (July 1981), 597–615, at 600–1

Llosa, Mario Vargas, ‘Un héroe de nuestro tiempo’, introduction to El erizo y la zorra (Barcelona, 1981: Muchnik)

• serialised in El Comercio (Lima), October–December 1980
• repr. in Mario Vargas Llosa, Contra viento y marea (1962–1982) (Barcelona, 1983: Seix Barral), 406–24, and id., Contra viento y marea, II (1972–1984) (Barcelona, 1986: Seix Barral), 260–78
• excerpted in English as ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Hero of Our Time’ in id., Making Waves, ed. and trans. John King (London, 1996: Faber; New York, 1997: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 144–7

Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris, Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliogrpahy (Austin, 1981: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas)

Watson, Peter, ‘Brains of Britain “The Big-League Tables” ’, Encounter, October 1981, 93