Arquivo GB 3184 BW - Betty Willingale Archive

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Código de referência

GB 3184 BW

Título

Betty Willingale Archive

Data(s)

  • c 1944-2019 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

16 boxes

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História do arquivo

Betty Willingale was born in Rotherhithe, London, in 1927. Her father was a Thames lighterman.

Betty joined the BBC as a teenager in 1944, working at in the Library at Bush House (International division.). She became part of the early TV drama team

She headed the BBC script unit for many years, first in the Script Library and then as Script Editor on many major productions in the 1960s and 1970s, before producing her own shows. Her first script editor role was for 'Compact' in 1962, and she went on to work on a number of well known TV adaptations including 'I,Claudius' in 1976, and 'The 'Barchester Chronicles' in 1982. She gained her production debut in 1983 with the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park'. She later worked as producer on an adaption of the Olivia Manning trilogy, 'Fortunes of War'', which starred Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. It was broadcast in 1987.

When she retired from the BBC in 1988, she worked at Carnival Films, for 10 years, including as a consultant on Jeeves and Wooster, 1990 and as a script editor on Agatha Christie's Poirot, both for Granada, for ITV. She then went on to create and produce Midsomer Murders for ITV. She was still working until four years before her death at the age of 93.

The collection comprises material from Betty Willingale's home by the executors of her will, Christabel and Brian Eastman. The executors made some selections of material, focussing predominantly on that which related to her professional life as a Script Editor and Producer. The archive emerged organically over the course of Willingale’s career, including files of readers reports compiled during her work for the BBC Script Unit, and selected correspondence and ephemera about different productions on which she worked. She also became friends with a number of a wide range of writers, actors, producers and others in the television industry, which is reflected in her correspondence.

The archive also contains her copies of books relating to TV adaptations that she worked on.

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

Papers of Betty Willingale, donated by the executors of her estate, Brian and Christabel Eastman.

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

This archive contains the personal papers of Betty Willingale (1927-2021).
The archive spans much of her early work at BBC Script Unit, through to projects for Carnival Productions for ITV and also Midsomer Murders, for ITV. It also contains awards, photographs and memorabilia relating to her work in television.

Avaliação, seleção e eliminação

Incorporações

Not expected

Sistema de arranjo

This archive has been arranged into separate series as follows

BW/1 - Work for the BBC
BW/2 - Work for ITV
BW/3 - Correspondence
BW/4 - Photographs
BW/5 - Awards and memorabilia
BW/6 - Books
BW/7 - Audio-visual
BW/8 - Material about Betty Willingale

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

Open

Condiçoes de reprodução

Idioma do material

  • inglês

Sistema de escrita do material

  • latim

Notas ao idioma e script

Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

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Existência e localização de originais

Existência e localização de cópias

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Identificador da instituição

GB 3184

Regras ou convenções utilizadas

Estatuto

Final

Nível de detalhe

Máximo

Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação

2024

Línguas e escritas

  • inglês

Script(s)

  • latim

Fontes

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