For further information about this project, please contact James Procter at Newcastle University.
“It is now nearly thirty years since, in a BBC room in London, on an old BBC typewriter, and on smooth, ‘non-rustle’ BBC script paper, I wrote the first sentence of my first published book….” V.S Naipaul Finding the Centre (1984)
Scripting Empire - West Indian and West African Literature at the BBC, 1939-1968
Dr. James Procter, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics,
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.