Giles Cooper Papers, 1945-1984

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Series II: Writings by Giles Cooper


Subseries II.1: Scripts and Screenplays



Box 2 The Adventure of the Devil's Foot. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted for Television.


Box 2 The Adventure of the Illustrious Client. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted for Television.


Box 2 All for the Sound of Cymbals. See: The Sound of Cymbals.


Box 2 All for Tluee Days. A Story of the Hungarian Revolution.


Box 2 All That Money Will Buy.


Box 2 All the Way Home. A New Radio Play.


Box 2 Artists in Crime. By Ngaio Marsh. Dramatised for Broadcasting in Five Episodes.


Box 2 As Others See Us. Number 4.


Box 2 Barchester Towers. A Play for Television. From the Novel by Anthony Trollope.


Box 2 The Beauty Queen Murders.


Box 2 Before the Monday. A Play for Broadcasting, 1958 July, 1958


Box 2 The Birth of a Play.


Box 2 Bloody Badajoz. See: Carried by Storm.


Box 2 A Boneca de Duas Cabeyas. Traduyao e Adaptayao: Carlos Lage.



Box 3 Brass Farthing. By Rupert Croft-Cooke.

(Saturday Night Theatre)


Box 3 Breakdown. A Modem Parable by Friedrich Diirrenmatt. Adapted for Television.


Box 3 The Broken Jug. A Comedy in Three Acts by Lawrence Wilson. Adapted from the German Comedy 'Der Zerbrochene Krug' by Heiruich von Kleist.


Box 3 The Broken Surface. A Play for Television.


Box 3 Broome Stages. A Play in Three Acts. Based on the Novel by Clemence Dane.


Box 3 The Bruce-Partington Plans. Adapted for Television.

(Sherlock Holmes. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Episode 10)


Box 3 The Canterville Ghost. By Oscar Wilde. Adapted For Television.

(Tales of Mystery and Imagination)


Box 3 The Carboy.


Box 3 Caretaker. A Play for Radio, 1959 February, 1959



Box 4 Carried by Storm, 1959 June, 1959


Box 4 The Case of the Illustrious Client. See: The Illustrious Client.


Box 4 A Children's Party.

(Maigret by Simenon Number Thirteen)


Box 4 Chinese Magic. From the Short Story by Algernon Blackwood. Adapted for Television.

(Tales of Mystery. No.2)


Box 4 The Cold Hand


Box 4 Count Down. By Charles Eric Maine.

(Film Treatment)


Box 4 A Crown of Gold. A Play for Broadcasting.

(Thirty Minute Theatre)



Box 5 La Dame aux Camelias. See: The Lady of the Camellias.


Box 5 Dance Date. Stories from a West Country Ballroom. Episode 2. See You in the Morning.


Box 5 Dance Date. Ballroom of the West. Episode 3. Fair's Fair.


Box 5 Dance Date. 4. The Five Pound Note.


Box 5 Dance Date. 5. The Resident.


Box 5 Dance Date. Episode 6. Finishing School.


Box 5 Dance Date. Stories from a West Country Ballroom. Episode 7. Laying the Ghost.


Box 5 Dance Date. Stories from a West Country Ballroom. Episode 8. Lifeline.


Box 5 Dangerous Word. A Play for Television! A Play for Radio, 1957 November -December, 1957

(Armchair Theatre)


Box 5 The Day of the Triffids. A Serial for Broadcasting in Six Parts. From the Novel by John Wyndham.



Box 6 Death in Mind. By Georges Sirnenon. Adapted for Television. (Maigret No. 38)/Simenon's Maigret Death in Mind. Adapted ... from La Tete d'un Homme.


Box 6 Death of a Butcher. By Georges Sirnenon.

(Maigret No. 17)


Box 6 The Disagreeable Oyster. A Play for Broadcasting.

(Midweek Theatre)


Box 6 Discreetly from the Left. A Play for Television.


Box 6 Dolly Reforming Herself. By Henry Arthur Jones. Adapted for Broadcasting.

(English Theatre, 1900-1950 Saturday Night Theatre)


Box 6 The Double Doll.

(Drama 63)


Box 6 A Dream of Armageddon. By H. G. Wells. Adapted for Television.


Box 6 The Dying Fire. A One Act Play.



Box 7 Enter Ghost. A Shakespearean Extravaganza. Written for Broadcasting.


Box 7 Epitaph for a Spy. By Eric Ambler. Dramatised for Television in Six Episodes.


Box 7 Everything in the Garden. A Play by Edward Albee from the play by Giles Cooper.


Box 7 Everything in the Garden. A Play in Three Acts, 1961



Box 8 The Experts.

(Maigret Lognon et les Gangsters)


Box 8 The Face of the Tiger. Fall of Man. A Play in One Act.


Box 8 False Crest.


Box 8 A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway. Dramatised for Television in Three Parts.



Box 9 The Feast. By Margaret Kennedy. Script for Radio.

(Saturday Night Theatre)


Box 9 Filmer. By H. G. Wells. Adapted for Television.


Box 9 For Whom the Bell Tolls. By Ernest Hemingway. Dramatised for Television.

(Classic Serials)


Box 9 The Forgotten Rotten Borough.

(Saturday Matinee)


Box 9 The Freewheelers. Adapted for Radio by Brian Miller, 1961 October -November, 1961


Box 9 The Frontier. See: To the Frontier.


Box 9 Funny Isn't It? An Analysis of English Humour Written for Broadcasting.



Box 10 A Game of Soldiers.


Box 10 General Confusion. A Farcical Comedy. See: The General's Mess.


Box 10 The General's Mess. A Play for Television.


Box 10 The Golden Fleece. By Georges Sirnenon. Adapted for Television.

(Maigret No. 20)


Box 10 Gravelhanger. By Val Gielgud


Box 10 The Greenhouse Killer. See: Power of the Press.


Box 10 Grown Under Glass.

(First episode and synopsis of a serial for television)


Box 10 Haddocks' Eyes. See: Old Joss.


Box 10 The Happiest Days of Your Life. By John Dighton. Adapted for Broadcasting.

(Saturday Night Theatre)


Box 10 Happy Family. Printed copies.



Box 11 Happy Family, 1965 September, 1965



Box 12 The House of Bernarda Alba. By Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham-Lujan & Richard L. O'Connell.


Box 12 I Am Osango. A Play for Television, 1965 September, 1965


Box 12 I Gotta Universe. A New Play for Radio.


Box 12 The Illustrious Client.

(Sherlock Holmes. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)


Box 12 Inspector's Lognon's Triumph.

(Maigret No. 16)


Box 12 Je Te Plumerai les Ailes. Adaptation de Nadine Alari. See: Happy Family.


Box 12 Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard. See: Lovers Take All.


Box 12 Kittens Are Brave. A Play for Television.


Box 12 The Kreutzer Sonata. By Eugene I1yin and Charlotte Frances. Adapted from the Short Story by Leo Tolstoy.


Box 12 Television Version by Peter Key.


Box 12 The Lady of the Camellias. From the novel by Alexandre Dumas Fils. Devised by Franco Zeffirelli.



Box 13 The Lady of the Camellias.


Box 13 Lead On the Dancing Girls.


Box 13 Leopard Men. See: Trader Hom.


Box 13 Liberty Hall.


Box 13 The Lock at Charenton.

(Maigret by Georges Simenon)


Box 13 The Lonesome Road. A Play for Radio.



Box 14 The Long House. A Play for Television, 1964 February, 1964


Box 14 Loop. By Peter Key, 1952 April, 1952


Box 14 Lord of the Flies. Based on the Novel by William Golding, 1955 June, 1955


Box 14 Lost Hearts. By M. R. James. Adapted for Television.


Box 14 A Lot to Learn. A Play for Television.


Box 14 Love and Penguins. A Play for Television.


Box 14 Love from Felicie. By Georges Simenon. Adapted for Television. (Maigret No. 27.)


Box 14 Lovers Take All. (Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard). By Pierre Marivaux. English Translation.


Box 14 La Machine a Ecrire. See: The Typewriter.



Box 15 Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. Dramatised for Television as a Serial in Four Parts.



Box 16 Madrid is the Capital of Spain. A Play in Three Acts. Maigret and the Lost Life. A Play for Broadcasting. Translated and adapted from Maigret et la Jeune Morte by Georges Simenon.


Box 16 Maigret Has Scruples. See: Poison for Two.


Box 16 A Man in the Zoo. By David Garnett. Adapted for Radio


Box 16 A Man of Quality.

(Maigret by Simenon 7.)


Box 16 Mary Britten M.D. By Peter Key.



Box 17 Mathry Beacon. A Play for Radio, 1955

(Italia Prize 1956 BBC Entry)


Box 17 The Mirror Can Distort. A One Act Play.


Box 17 Les Miserables. By Victor Hugo. Adapted for Television in Ten Parts.


Box 17 Mist over the Mistletoe. A Comedy by Dan Sutherland. Adapted for Broadcasting.



Box 18 La Muiieca de Dos Cabezas. Adaptacion para TVE: Ramon Solanes. (Sospecha No. 31) See: The Double Doll. 4


Box 18 Murder in Montmartre. By Georges Simenon.


Box 18 Murder Must Advertise. A Play for Broadcasting. From the Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.


Box 18 Murder on Monday. By Georges Simenon.

(Maigret No. 24)


Box 18 Nephele. From the short Story by Algernon Blackwood.

(Tales of Mystery No.5)


Box 18 Never Get Out, 1949


Box 18 New Games for Old. See: The Timbimbo Craze.


Box 18 Night Call. See: Inspector's Lognon's Triumph.


Box 18 The Nine Tailors. A Serial in Four Parts. Adapted ... from the Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.


Box 18 The No-Man.


Box 18 A Noble Profession. By Pierre Boule.

(Film Treatment)


Box 18 Nothing to Lose. See: Some of the People .. ...


Box 18 Oasis. A Play for Television.


Box 18 The Object, 1963 May, 1963


Box 18 Oeil de Hibou ou Je Te Plumerai les Ailes. Adaptation de Nadine Alari. See: Happy Family.



Box 19 Old Joss. A Comedy in Two Acts.


Box 19 Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. Adapted for Radio, 1951


Box 19 One Night in Styria. By David Howarth.

(Mid-Week Theatre)


Box 19 Operation Cheeseboard.

(Synopsis of a television serial)


Box 19 The Other Man. A Play for Television in Two Parts.



Box 20 The Other Man.


Box 20 Out of the Crocodile, 1961



Box 21 The Owl and the Pussy Cat. A Play for Radio.


Box 21 Part of the View.


Box 21 A Perfectly Ghastly Joke. A Play for Broadcasting.


Box 21 The Phantom Major. From the book by Virginia Cowles.


Box 21 Pig in the Middle. A Play for Broadcasting.


Box 21 The Plattner Story. By H. G. Wells. Adapted for Television.


Box 21 Point of Honour, 1960


Box 21 Poison for Two. By Georges Simenon. Adapted for Television. Power of the Press; The Greenhouse Killer.


Box 21 The Power of Zero. A Play for Television.



Box 22 A Present from Bessie. Based on a Short Story by Cyril Hare.


Box 22 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

(Film Treatment)


Box 22 Rain in the Night. A Play.


Box 22 Red Jungle. A Feature for Radio by George F. Kerr. Based on the book "Red Jungle" by John Cross.


Box 22 The Return of General Forefinger.


Box 22 La Route Solitaire. Un Script de Television ... Version Francaise de Suzanne Lombard.


Box 22 Same Time, Same Place. See: Some of the People .....


Box 22 Un Samedi Soir. Adaptation Francaise de Herman Closson


Box 22 Seek Her Out. A Play in Two Acts, 1964

(Theatre 625)



Box 23 Seek Her Out.


Box 23 Seven Little Crosses.


Box 23 Shepherds' Warning. A Play in Three Acts.


Box 23 The Six Napoleons. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted for Television.


Box 23 Small Fortune. A Comedy for Broadcasting.

(Saturday Matinee)


Box 23 The Soldier's Rest. A One Act Play.


Box 23 Some of the People .....



Box 24 Someone to Call.


Box 24 Something from the Sea. A Radio Play.


Box 24 The Sound of Cymbals. Synopsis for a Radio Play.

(Radio Theatre)


Box 24 The Speckled Band .. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted for Television.


Box 24 The Spies are Singing. A Play.



Box 25 Stiff Upper Lip. By Lawrence Durrell.


Box 25 Sword of Honour. By Evelyn Waugh. Adapted for Television.

(Theatre 625)


Box 25 Tea-time and Nobody. See: Happy Family.


Box 25 The Terror of the Twins. By Algernon Blackwood. Adapted for Television. (Tales of Mystery)



Box 26 There and Back Again. A Play for Television.


Box 26 These Her Princes. A Play in Three Acts.


Box 26 They. By Rudyard Kipling. Adapted for Broadcasting.


Box 26 Thieves Rush In. A Play for Broadcasting.


Box 26 Three Names for Nicholas. The Novel by Rupert Croft-Cooke. Dramatised for Broadcasting.

(Saturday Night Theatre)


Box 26 The Timbimbo Craze or New Games for Old. A Radio Comedy.

(Saturday Matinee)


Box 26 To the Frontier. A Play for Television.

(Theatre 625)


Box 26 Tout Vient du Jardin. See: Everything in the Garden.


Box 26 Trader Hom. Leopard Men.

(Incomplete Film Treatment)


Box 26 La Trou dans la Tete. Trois Actes. De Jacques Robert.



Box 27 True Love and Limbeck. A Comedy for Television.


Box 27 The Typewriter. By Jean Cocteau. Adapted and Translated for Television.


Box 27 Under Milk Wood. By Dylan Thomas.


Box 27 Under the Loofah Tree. A Play for Broadcasting.1958 February



Box 28 Unman, Wittering and Zigo, 1958 April, 1958

(Theatre 625)


Box 28 The Volunteer. A Play for Broadcasting.

(Saturday Night Theatre)



Box 29 War for the Week-End. See: The Volunteer.


Box 29 The Way of All Flesh. By Samuel Butler. Adapted for Television.


Box 29 What Farrar Saw. By James Hanley.


Box 29 What I Did in the Holidays. See: Loop.


Box 29 When the Kissing Had to Stop. By Constantine Fitzgibbon. Dramatised for Television.



Box 30 Where the Party Ended. A Play for Broadcasting.


Box 30 A Wicked World. A Play for Television, 1963


Box 30 The Winning Ticket.

(Maigret by Simenon No: 14)


Box 30 Without the Grail. 1957 July, 1957


Box 30 The Wrong Box. By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Adapted for Radio



Box 31 Unidentified play scripts


Subseries II.2: Poetry



Box 32 Poems and Manuscripts


Subseries II.3: Prose


Box 32 All is Death


Box 32 Audition Call.


Box 32 Bacchus Unparded.


Box 32 Blind Man's Buff.


Box 32 Class Distinctions. An Attack by Joshua Stannus.


Box 32 Dangerous Silence. (Fuchs). Story Synopsis.


Box 32 Deep Dominion. Synopsis of a Novel.


Box 32 Eyes. By Leo Crespigo.


Box 32 A Hank of Hair.


Box 32 Happy Return.


Box 32 Koplosland: a Fable.


Box 32 The Left Hand Track.


Box 32 The Messenger


Box 32 Not of Our Company.


Box 32 The Other Man. A Novel.


Box 32 A Quiet Time. See: Poor Puckle.


Box 32 Poor Puckle.


Box 32 Puckle. See: Poor Puckle.


Box 32 The Revival


Box 32 The Sea-Wet Rock.


Box 32 So Easy.


Box 32 Track Junction.


Box 32 Two in Hand.


Box 32 Where the Best Is Like the Worst.



Box 33 Workbooks & notebooks



Box 34 Workbooks & notebooks