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- 1950s-2007 (Creation)
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62 boxes
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Film and television screenplays developed by Clive Exton, including: Tobey’s Wednesday, Trevor, Young and Sensitive, Twixt, Jeeves and Wooster, Bethnal Green, The Human Voice, Where I Live and I’ll Have You to Remember, Some Talk of Alexander, Murder is Easy, Strangeways, Turnskin, Sonder Gaard, The Fireeaters, Cobbett, Don Quixote, Day the Call Came, Pirates, Unmarried Man, Angus Wilson, Colossus, Isadora, Dirty Washing, Butcher’s Boy, One Fine Day.
The archive also includes correspondence, ephemera, press cuttings and press packs.
From his earliest days working on ITV's Armchair Theatre productions to his dramatisations for popular, lavishly produced series such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves & Wooster, Clive Exton was a screenwriter who brought intelligence and depth to television drama.
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Open
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- English
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- Latin
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View the UAL online archive catalogue here: https://archives.arts.ac.uk/Calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=CE
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Created 2017
Amended 2024
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- English
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- Latin