Research Catalog

Title

Clouds Hill : broadcast in the West of England Programme on Thursday, 25th August, 1938, 9:40-9:55 p.m. ; carbon-copy typescript of BBC radio address.

Author

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

Publication

[Abinger Hammer, Surrey, England?], 1938.

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Details

Additional Authors

BBC Radio.

Description

6 leaves; approx. 35 x 22 cm

Subjects

• Lawrence, T. E (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 > Anecdotes
• National Trust (Great Britain)
• Environmentalism > Great Britain
• Lawrence, T. E (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 > Homes and haunts > England > Dorset
• Dorset (England) > Description and travel

Note

• Typed on rectos only.
• Autograph pen emendation to day of week on title page.
• Broadcast on September 25th 1938, a text of it was published in the BBC magazine "The Listener" in the following week. Forster heavily revised it for publication in a collection of his essays, articles, and broadcasts titled Two Cheers for Democracy (London: Edward Arnold, 1951).
• The present text significantly varies from text published in "The Listener.” The BBC archives contain a partial recording of the broadcast.
• Clouds Hill was the Dorsetshire cottage of the writer/adventurer T. E. Lawrence.
• Broadcast comprises several of Forster’s memories of spending time at Clouds Hill with Lawrence, in which he conveys through various anecdotes the “happy casualness” of the place.
• “Clouds Hill as you have just heard has recently been acquired by the National Trust, and for that reason I’ve been asked to give a short talk about it.”—First sentence.
• “It wasn’t his home, it was his pied a terre, the place where his feet touched the earth for a moment, and found rest.”—p. 4.
• “Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his World War I activities.”—From Wikipedia.
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) is Lawrence’s account of his wartime experiences in the desert.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Cased Forster C56 1938

OCLC

910168874

Author

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

Title

Clouds Hill : broadcast in the West of England Programme on Thursday, 25th August, 1938, 9:40-9:55 p.m. ; carbon-copy typescript of BBC radio address.

Imprint

[Abinger Hammer, Surrey, England?], 1938.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy housed in a blue, cloth-covered folding case.

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Added Author

BBC Radio.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Cased Forster C56 1938