The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Equality, Liberty and Variety

• Dialogue with John Vaizey, Professor of Economics, Brunel University
• Recording date: 9/5/74
• First transmission: 19/6/74 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds
• Repeat(s): 10.30 pm 23/12/74 BBC Radio 3
• Series: Whatever Happened to Equality? (No 8 – last)
• Presenter: John Vaizey
• Producer: Daniel Snowman
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T36709; BLSA Tape P1016W; repeat BLSA Tape T831R

The Russian Preoccupation with History

• Talk, recorded 14/12/73; duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds
• First transmission: 9.30 pm 24/7/74 BBC Radio 3
• Repeat(s): 9.00 pm 17/3/75 BBC Radio 3, 29/10/75 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (presenter John Merson[?], Sydney), as ‘The Russian Obsession with History’
• Producer: Adrian Johnson
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives; Berlin Papers; Russian translation in Berlin Papers
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T37598; copy on BLSA Tape T10144R; Australian Broadcasting Corporation tape, call number 75/10/2379 (copy at BLSA); off-air recording here
• A very short extract only is included as a contribution to ‘Out of the Year’, Listener 92 (1974), 830
• View Document (below) for transcript; and see also Bib.297, Four Lectures on Russian Historicism

Man of Action

• Choice of records
• Recording date: 1/10/74
• First transmission: 2.05 pm 12/10/74 BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 72 minutes 2 seconds
• Repeat(s): 2.20 pm 11/9/76 BBC Radio 3
• Producer: Derek Drescher (series producer in 1976 Patrick Lambert)
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives [both broadcasts]
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives T51313; copy on BLSA Tapes T10173W and 10352W
• Publication: view document below

The Lion’s Roar

• IB reading extract from his book Mr Churchill in 1940
• First transmission: 8.30 pm 26/11/74 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 60 minutes
• Repeat(s): 11.05 pm 29/11/74 BBC Radio 4 (shortened)
• Producer: Denys Gueroult
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only
• Publication: [part of Mr Churchill in 1940 (London, [1964]; John Murray; Boston/Cambridge, n.d.: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press) = Bib.32]

Romanticism and Liberation; Romanticism and Social Change

• Discussion with Roy Pascal, Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham
• available on cassette (no public broadcast)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (summary and discussion by Anthony Polonsky issued with cassette)
• Publication: cassette issued by Audio Learning Limited 1974, subsequently distributed by Audio-Visual Productions, School Hill Centre, CHEPSTOW, Gwent, NP6 5PH (tel. 01291-625439), but now unavailable for purchase
• copy at BLSA (AUDIO-VISUAL PRODUCTIONS HUA 013)

The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities, 2nd Tykociner Memorial Lecture (Illinois, 1974: University of Illinois), 34 pp.

• repr. in Salmagundi no. 27 (Summer/Fall 1974), 9–39, Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (eds), The Salmagundi Reader (Bloomington, 1983: Indiana University Press)
• The Crooked Timber of Humanity ; The Proper Study of Mankind; Against the Current
• trans. Italian, Polish

‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’ (Dispatch no. 292, British Embassy, Washington, to Foreign Office, London, 19 April 1943), in Thomas E. Hachey (ed.), ‘American Profiles on Capitol Hill: A Confidential Study for the British Foreign Office in 1943’, Wisconsin Magazine of History 57 no. 2 (Winter 1973–4), 141–53

Probable unattributed contributions to T. E. Hachey (ed.), Confidential Dispatches: Analyses of America by the British Ambassador, 1939–45 (Evanston, Illinois, 1974)

• IB’s disclaimer in a letter of 4 June 1974 to Arthur Schlesinger should not necessarily be taken at face value: 'I have seen Mr Hachey’s book, and it contains only long despatches – not the weekly political summary which I used to have a hand in – I think I must have had something to do with these other things too, but not so very much – they must have been composed by people in my ‘section’ and I must have read them and passed them on, as my own were read and passed on by my superiors, William Hayter, Michael Wright and suchlike. At any rate, I recognised very little in them [...].'

‘Go there to find your identity’, Jewish Chronicle, 16 April 1974, supplement on 50th anniversary of the Friends of the Hebrew University, i–ii

Contribution (i.e. tribute) to Arthur Lehning in 1974 (Leiden, 1974: Brill), 3 pp.

• View document (below) for PDF

‘Mr C. E. Bohlen: Close Study of Soviet Leaders’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 11 January 1974, 16

‘Mr Raimund von Hofmannsthal’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 26 April 1974, 20

• repr. in Christiane Zimmer and others, Raimund von Hofmannsthal: A Rosenkavalier 1906–1974, ed. Ivan Moffat (Reinbek, 1975: Rowolt), 27–8

‘Byron the Romantic’, contribution to ‘From Missolonghi to Apsley House: A Reappraisal of Byron’

• edited transcript of a radio discussion (see B.51, Byron: Poet or Myth?’), presented by Christopher Ricks and Hallam Tennyson, Radio 3, 5 May 1974
• Listener 91 no. 2355 (16 May 1974), 623–6 at 623, 626

View document, below, for transcript of the radio discussion

Contribution to ‘I remember, I remember’, The Times Literary Supplement, 6 December 1974, 1370

• repr. ibid., 11 November 2016, 38

Contribution (excerpt from ‘The Russian Preoccupation with History’) to ‘Out of the Year’, Listener 92 (1974), 830

K. L. Poll, ‘Een liberale moralist’, NRC Handelsblad, 9 April 1974, Cultural Supplement, 3

Man of Action, Radio 3, 12 October 1974

• not subsequently published

John Vaizey, ‘Equality, Liberty and Variety’, Radio 3, 19 June 1974

• not subsequently published

Connolly, William E., The Terms of Political Discourse (Lexington, Massachusetts, 1974: D. C. Heath)

d’Entrèves, Alessandro Passerin (ed.), ‘Prefazione’, in La libertà politica (Milan, 1974: Edizioni di Comunità), 7–17