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General file regarding the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Contains correspondence concerning: meetings; broadcasts on the state of the newspaper market; interview transcripts; relations with trade unions; programme scripts; corrections; report on Observer profitability.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; David Astor; BBC; Charles Curran.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

General file regarding the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Contains correspondence and memorandums concerning: subscription services; the 1975 BBC documentary report 'Crisis at the Observer'; broadcasts on the state of the newspaper market; the journalists' trade unions; advertisements; corrections; children's television; the printing of publicity material; travel expenses; requests to reproduce quotes and print material; the movement of news to the front page of the newspaper.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; BBC; Tristan Jones; Elywin Parry Jones; Geoffrey Whatmore; Charles Curran.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Miscellaneous letters to and correspondence with LP Scott, from individuals with a surname beginning with, and organisations starting with the letters C and D. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the years 1966-73.

They include correspondence with Harrods, Knightsbridge, London (1959); with Lady Mavis Coulson on publishing an article of hers (1960); with Lawrence Dampier of Sun Publishing Ltd Vancouver, Canada on visiting England (1966); with Irving Dillard of Illinois on the Bedside Guardian and the Presidential campaign (1966, 1972); with Leonard Cohen on creating a CP Scott memorial lectureship at the Hebrew University in Israel, and on the success of the Guardian (1970-1); with Amy, wife of Leonard Cohen, on the latter's sudden death (1971); with Charles Curran, Director-General of Broadcasting House, on a meeting at Hampton Court (1971); with Eric Cheadle, Deputy Managing Director of Thomson Newspapers Ltd on charity donations (1972); with the National Coal Board on their obtaining a cartoon drawing, published in the Guardian (1973), and with Brigadier Lionel Cross on publicity (1973).
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Files kept by the editor of The Observer containing correspondence from individuals and organisations named BU-BZ.

Correspondents include: Alastair Buchan, Richard Buckle, Bulgarian Embassador (Alexander Yankov), Donald Bull, Richard Burton (via solicitor), Lord Butler of Saffron Walden.

Correspondents from the BBC include: Lord Buxton, Sir Charles Curran, Paul Fox, Lord Goodman, Sir Hugh Greene, Lord Hill of Luton, Gerard Mansell, Ned Sherrin.

Subjects covered include: suggestions for articles and book reviews, invitations for interviews and other programmes, co-operation with the BBC, complaints about articles, corrections and clarifications.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford