The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

*Night Waves item on IB

• Recording date: 6/11/97?
• First transmission: ? pm 6/11/97 BBC Radio 3
• Series: Night Waves
• Producer: Rob Ketteridge
• Presenter: Humphrey Carpenter
• Recording: BLSA Tape [to come]
• Publication: no

1. The Making of a Hedgehog
2. Freedom and Its Enemies

• Two 50-minute programmes about the life and times of Isaiah Berlin, consisting in large part of interviews with Berlin by Michael Ignatieff; also six hours of unedited interview tapes used in compiling the programmes
• Recording date: 15–17/5/95
• First transmission: 14/11/97 and 15/11/97, 11.15 pm BBC2 Television
• Producer: David Herman
• Presenter: Michael Ignatieff
• Transcript: David Herman; part 1 revised by Henry Hardy and trans. Latvian

Recording: BBC Television Archives; BLSA Tapes C530/4 (first programme), C530/5 (second programme), C530/6 to C530/35 (rushes)

Letter from America

• ‘The continuing search for Saddam’s deadly toxic secrets and the loss of a friend, the brilliant, witty and wise Sir Isaiah Berlin’
• Transmission: 21/11/97, 9.00 p.m., BBC Radio 4
• Presenter: Alistair Cooke
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BBC Sounds
• Publication: in The Book of Isaiah

Celebrating Salzburg 1: 1920–37

• The story of the Salzburg Festival, including reminiscences of the Festival’s early years from IB
• Recording date:
• First transmission: 13/12/97 2.00 pm BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 2 hours (whole programme)
• Series: Vintage Years: Celebrating Salzburg (6 programmes)
• Producer: David Gallagher
• Presenter: Richard Osborne
• Transcript: Henry Hardy (IB’s contribution only)
• Recording: BLSA Tape H9068/2

Isaiah Berlin

• An evening devoted to the life and work of IB
• Recording date:
• First transmission: 8/12/97 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3
• Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
• Producer: Neil Trevithick
• Presenter: Humphrey Carpenter
• Recording: BLSA Tape H9507/1

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, ed. Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer, foreword by Noel Annan and introduction by Roger Hausheer (London, 1997: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1998: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; London, 1998: Pimlico)

• reprints of Bibs. 32, 44, 54, 60, 71, 77, 81, 93, 98, 108, 122, 134, 139, 143, 161, 169 (New York Review of Books version) and 196, with a concise bibliography of Isaiah Berlin’s writings by Henry Hardy
• trans. Bosnia, Bulgarian (in part), Catalan, Croatian (in part), Finnish (in part), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish

2nd ed., foreword by Andrew Marr (London, 2014: Vintage)

‘Literature and Art in the RSFSR’ (1945) (Russian Translation by Galina Andreeva of part of ‘A Note on Literature and the Arts in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in the closing months of 1945’, in Public Record Office FO 371/56725)

• Kulisa NG [supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta] no. 2 (December 1997), 4–5 (published by Nina Koroleva; repr. with cuts restored in Zvezda, 2003 No 7 [July], 126–42)
• full text published as ‘Litteratura i iskusstvo v Rossii pri Staline’, trans. L. Lakhuty, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)
• English original published (with one passage cut) as ‘The Arts in Russia under Stalin’, New York Review of Books, 19 October 2000, 54–63
• published (in full) in The Soviet Mind
• trans. Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (in part)

‘Sir Thomas Armstrong (1898–1994)’, in Christ Church 1996 [Oxford, 1997: Christ Church], 72–3, and in Rosemary Rapaport (ed.), Thomas Armstrong: A Celebration by His Friends (Oxford, 1998: Thames Publishing), 40–1

Contribution to ‘Books of the Century’, Sunday Telegraph, 9 February 1997, Sunday Review, 12

Contribution (on his favourite images) to RA (The Royal Academy Magazine) no. 57 (Winter 1997), 62

Letters to Rocco Pezzimenti in Rocco Pezzimenti, The Open Society and its Friends, with letters from Isaiah Berlin and the late Karl R. Popper (Leominster/Rome, 1997: Gracewing/Millennium Romae), 173–8, 182–4

‘Israel and the Palestinians’ (16 October 1997), Ha'aretz, 7 November 1997, 1 (published within an article announcing IB’s death)

• original English text published in Affirming

Ha'aretz, 7 November 1997

• Hebrew edition
• Dalia Shehori, ‘Isaiah Berlin Has Died / Isaiah Berlin’s Last Letter [“Israel and the Palestinians”, translated in the article]: The Only Solution to the Conflict in the Middle East is Partition’, 1–2
• ‘Philosopher, Historian of Ideas and Anti-Communist / Isaiah Berlin Believed in the Pluralism of Values: One Universal System of Human Values Cannot Exist’ (obituary), 8


• English edition
• Ha'aretz staff, ‘Philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin Dies at 88’, 1
• Saguy Green, ‘ “The Smartest Jew of Our Generation” ’ (obituary), 1–2

Franziska Augstein, ‘Ich war ein russischer Jude’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 July 1997, no page number

Nicholas Dawidoff, June 1997, Athenaeum: ‘Shura and Shaya: An Afternoon with Sir Isaiah Berlin’, The American Scholar 67 no. 2 (1998), 101–4

Enrico Palandri, Panta no. 15 (1997), 64–73

anon., ‘The Death of a Wise Old Fox’, Guardian, 7 November 1997, 11

anon., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM’ (obituary), Daily Telegraph, 7 November 1997, 31

anon., ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin, Sower of Ideas’, Economist, 21 November 1997, 133

Blokland, Hans, ‘Isaiah Berlin on Positive and Negative Freedom’, chapter 2 in id., Freedom and Culture in Western Society, trans. Michael O’Loughlin (London and New York, 1997)

• there is also discussion of IB in other chapters (see index)