Granada Television: Broadcast on Apartheid

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0101 ICS 119
Held at	: Institute of Commonwealth Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/resources/library ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

Finding aids:

See link to repository catalogue.

Archival Information

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

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

Archivist's note:
Compiled 2000, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM 25 Programme, Aug 2001.

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:
Created 11/12/2000 ICS Archives 1, modified 22/12/2000