1988: Christmas Mumming in a North Cotswold Town. Appendix D: Campden and Broadcasting
Craig Fees, “Christmas Mumming in a North Cotswold Town: With Special Reference to Tourism, Urbanisation and Immigration-Related Social Change“, PhD., Institute of Dialect and Folklife Studies, School of English, University of Leeds, England (1988).
Not only has Chipping Campden been the subject of a number of broadcasts over the years, but it has been the setting for others, and Campden people have appeared in some, performed in some, and written or arranged others. This Appendix lists all of the programmes with a Campden involvement known and the broadcast dates found as the dissertation is being submitted: I am aware that there are others. I have used the following symbols to indicate the type of involvement:
A: Campden or a Campden personality is a subject of the programme (as in "The Microphone at Large" in 1934, or the later "Down Your Way" programmes).
B: Campden is a setting (as in the "Owen, M.D." series).
C: Written and/or arranged by a Campden resident.
D: Featuring a Campden person, resident or residents as themselves.
E: Campden residents perform roles.
*: An asterix is used to indicate those programmes in which one or more men involved in the 1959 television mumming broadcast took part.
x: Indicates programme in Upper Slocombe series, written by Charles Gardiner.
Clearly, it is possible to have more than one type of involvement in any one broadcast. The list that follows indicates only the date of first broadcast, unless otherwise indicated.
LIST OF BBC PROGRAMMES INVOLVING CAMPDEN
|
type |
date service | programme name |
|
ACD* |
17.10.1934 MR |
"Microphone at Large". |
|
ABE* |
9.1.1935 MR |
"The Campden Wonder", by John Masefield. |
|
ACD |
7.10.1935 MR |
"Harvest Home: A Microphone Impression from the Cotswolds" |
|
xE* |
18.3.1936 MR |
"Motor Cars or Hosses". |
|
E |
13.11.1936 MR |
"The Fatal Step". |
|
D |
14.1.1937 MR |
"The Roving Reporter" (Ex-Sup't. Jones). |
|
E* |
27.2.1937 MR |
"The Tragedy of Nan", by John Masefield. |
|
D |
7.1.1938 NAT |
"In Town Tonight" (Bill Nicholls). |
|
D* |
5.4.1938 MR |
"Down on the Farm". |
|
xE* |
5.9.1938 MR |
"Pump and Circumstance". |
|
CD |
16.11.1938 MR |
"Annually For Ever: A Programme of Cotswold Charity". |
|
D* |
12.7.1939 LR |
"Strength of the Land". |
|
xE* |
13.8.1939 MR |
"Coronation Chimes". |
|
A |
14.9.1943 OS |
"Calling South Africa: Old Lady in the Church". |
|
ADE |
24.12.1946 MR |
"St. George and the Dragon" (Campden Mumming). |
|
E* |
11.7.1947 MR |
"Uncle Hiram's Chair". |
|
E* |
24.9.1947 MR |
"For Man May Come". |
|
E* |
21.11.1947 MR |
"At the Sign of the Quiet Woman". |
|
E* |
2.9.1948 MR |
"Liberty Hall". |
|
AE* |
31.12.1948 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part One. Adapted from Hugh Ross Williamson's novel by Georgle Henschel(l). |
|
AE* |
7.1.1949 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 2. |
|
AE* |
14.1.1949 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 3. |
|
AE* |
21.1.1949 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 4. |
|
AE* |
28.1.1949 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 5. |
|
E* |
2.2.1949 MR |
"Joseph Arch". |
|
AE* |
4.2.1949 MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 6. |
|
AD* |
4.5.1949 LP |
"Have a Go", with Wilfred Pickles. |
|
AE* |
23.11.1949 MR |
"If Thee True Gloucestershire Would Know", |
|
xE* |
9.2.1950 MR |
"Cuckoo Corner". |
|
E* |
20.4.1950 MHS |
"The Village With Many Corners". |
|
BD* |
11.5.1950 MR |
"Wilfred Pickles' Pleasant Journey". |
|
xE* |
14.7.1950 MR |
"Upper Slocombe On Guard". |
|
AC |
15.8.1950 LP |
"Living in the Country". |
|
E* |
25.9.1950 MR |
"Uncle Hiram's Chair"(3). |
|
E* |
12.12.1950 MR |
"The Young King". |
|
AD |
19.12.1950 GOS |
"On the Job: Georgie Henschel". |
|
xE* |
28.5.1951 MR |
"Parson's Piece". |
|
AD* |
12.7.1951 MHS |
"Cotswold Miscellany". |
|
AD |
18.9.1951 GOS |
"Festival in Britain". |
|
xE* |
17.12.1951 MR |
"Festival at Upper Slocombe". |
|
E* |
25.3.1952 MR |
"Sam Bennett". |
|
E* |
4.7.1952 MR |
"At the Sign of 'The Rose Revived'". |
|
xE* |
13.9.1953 MR |
"Upper Slocombe Prepares". |
|
xE* |
20.2.1953 MR |
"Getting Down to Business". |
|
xE* |
27.2.1953 MR |
"Plans Take Shape". |
|
xE* |
6.3.1953 MR |
"Things Go Awry". |
|
xE* |
13.3.1953 |
MR |
"Harry Gubbins Takes a Hand". |
|
xE* |
20.3.1953 |
MR |
"The Final Touches". |
|
xE* |
9.6.1953 |
MR |
"Upper Slocombe Celebrates". |
|
*E |
30.10.1953 |
MR |
"Liberty Hall". |
|
AE* |
18.11.1953 |
MHS |
"Jimmy Teapot". |
|
xE* |
6.5.1954 |
MR |
"Slocombe Pride". |
|
ACE* |
14.9.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 1. A new production of Hugh Ross Williamson's novel adapted by Georgie Henschel. |
|
ACE* |
21.9.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 2. |
|
ACE* |
28.9.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 3. |
|
ACE* |
5.10.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part a. |
|
ACE* |
12.10.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 5. |
|
ACE* |
19.10.1954 |
MR |
"The Silver Bowl" Part 6. |
|
xE* |
20.10.1955 |
MR |
"Charity Begins at Upper Slocombe". |
|
AD* |
6.5.1956 |
LP |
"Down Your Way". |
|
E* |
14.5.1956 |
MR |
"Joseph Arch". |
|
xE* |
12.6.1956 |
MR |
"A Good Tip for Slocombe". |
|
E* |
7.1.1957 |
MR |
"The Archers"(2). |
|
E* |
2.1.1959 |
MRTV |
"The Midlander No. 4" (Television Mumming). |
|
BD |
29.9.1967 |
LP |
"Any Questions". |
|
ABD |
21.8.1983 |
R4 |
"Weekend" (School trip to Macedonia). |
|
ABD |
5.3.1984 |
BBC1 |
"Village School". |
|
ABD |
12.3.1984 |
BBC1 |
"Village School". |
|
ABD |
19.3.1984 |
BBC1 |
"Village School". |
|
ABD* |
ia.a.1986 |
R4 |
"Down Your Way". |
|
A |
12.2.1988 |
R4 |
"Timson's England" (reference to Cross Hands). |
1) Georgie Henschel was a professional writer/broadcaster who lived in Campden from the end of September, 1949, until 1957 or 1958. From about 1955-1956 she spent increasing amounts of time out of Campden, however. See her Talks File M25/578, and her Copyright File held in the BBC Written Archives Centre.
2) Bill Payne appeared regularly in "The Archers” until his death in 1962. George Hart appeared regularly until his death in 1987. I have not listed each episode in which either or both of them appeared; as British readers will know, "The Archers" is a serial with five programmes each week, in which Payne and Hart both played regular characters.
3) Previously broadcast in July 1947.