IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 119
Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Title: Granada Television: Broadcast on Apartheid
Date(s): 1977-1987
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 14 boxes
Name of creator(s): Granada Television Limited
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In 1986, Granada Television Ltd screened a series of four programmes on the history and current state of Apartheid in South Africa. The four parts covered successive periods of time, and each was individually produced.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Research materials for the fourth programme of a Granada Television Ltd series on the history of Apartheid in South Africa, covering events during the period 1978-1986. Includes research documents and preparatory material, audio tapes and transcripts of research interviews and filmed interviews, and press cuttings. There is also a series of audio tapes and transcripts of research and filmed interviews for the first programme in the series, covering the origins of Apartheid; and a video tape of the completed version of the first three programmes.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The material has been arranged according to record type: those for the fourth programme have been dealt with first, followed by the tapes and transcripts for the first programme, and finally a small section of materials relating to the completed programmes. The original order of documents, tapes and transcripts within series has been retained.
Conditions governing access:
Open although advance notice should be given. Prior arrangement must be made to listen to audio tapes in particular. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or Freedom of Information legislation.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Most items may be copied, at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests tp publish, or quote from, original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager. Copyright presumed belonging to Granada Television.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
See link to repository catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The material was deposited in ICS by one of the producers, Norma Percy, through the offices of Shula Marks, then Director of ICS and an adviser on programme 4, in 1990.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The whereabouts of materials for other programmes in the series is unknown. Film of the series as finally produced is available at the British Film Institute.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled 2000, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM 25 Programme, Aug 2001.
Date(s) of descriptions: Created 11/12/2000 ICS Archives 1, modified 22/12/2000