Isaiah Berlin

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

Celebrating Salzburg 1: 1920–37

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

Interview and discussion of The Proper Study ofMankind

Interview and discussion of The Proper Study of Mankind

  • First item in composite programme: interview of IB by Anthony Denselow; discussion of book by John Gray, Jonathan Ree and Marilyn Butler
  • First transmission: ? pm 25/2/97 BBC Radio 3
  • Series: Night Waves
  • Producer: Anthony Denselow
  • Presenter: Richard Coles
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (IB’s small contribution only)
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H8581/3

*Reputations: Isaiah Berlin

Reputations: Isaiah Berlin

  • Unpublished
  • Documentary with excerpts from IB’s broadcasts and contributions from John Drummond, Peter Laslett, Bryan Magee and Helen Rapp
  • Recording date: 23/9/96
  • First transmission: 9.35 pm 30/9/96 BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 25 minutes
  • Series: Reputations (The Third at 50)
  • Producer: Neil Trevithick
  • Presenter: Michael Ignatieff
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H7830

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

  • Documentary
  • Recording date: 2/96
  • First transmission: 7.30 pm 27/2/96 World Service
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Series: Meridian Feature
  • Producer: Jenny Hargreaves
  • Presenter: Elizabeth Robson
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (IB’s small contribution only)
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H8723

Private Passions

Private Passions

  • Interview/Choice of recordings
  • First transmission: 12.00 pm 3/2/96 BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Repeat: 12.00 pm 11/1/97 BBC Radio 3
  • Series: Private Passions
  • Producer: Ladbroke Radio
  • Presenter: Michael Berkeley
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
  • Recording: BLSA Tape H6476
  • Publication: Romulus [the magazine of Wolfson College, Oxford], [June] 2006, 5–8