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Granada Television: World in Action transcripts: Guyana Election, 1968


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 23

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: Granada Television: World in Action transcripts: Guyana Election, 1968

Date(s): 1968

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Granada Television

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

'World in Action', produced by Granada Television, is one of Britain's longest running current affairs programmes. First launched in 1963, World in Action was the first weekly current affairs programme in Britain to pioneer pictorial journalism on film and to risk taking an independent editorial stance. Guyana achieved independence in 1966, the 1968 General Election was won by the People's National Congress, led by Forbes Burnham.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Transcripts of two Granada Television 'World in Action' programmes on the Guyana Elections of 1968, 'The Trail of the vanishing voter', broadcast 11 Dec 1968 and 'The Making of a Prime Minister', broadcast 6 Jan 1969; with OpinionResearch Centre survey on electoral registers for Guyana, Oct 1968 and transcript of the results of general elections in Guyana, 1964 and 1968.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 items

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given.

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 to publish, or quote from original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager. Copyright presumed belonging to Granada Television.

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See link to repository catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Source of acquisition by ICS unknown.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), 2nd edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Elections | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names
Burnham | Linden Forbes Samson | 1923-1985 | Prime Minister and President of Guyana

Corporate names
Granada Television Limited
People's National Congress, Guyana

Places
Guyana | South America