Audio recordings

Including interviews, oral histories and radio programmes. Highlights here include an interview between Mark Abrams (social scientist and businessman) and his grandson, and interviews conducted throughout 2019 with Female MPs, Rebel MPs and Academics.




















ERS Round Table
Reference Code:
SOBA 6/3/30
Description:
ERS here is Electoral Reform Society. From the 'Features' section.
Collection:
Women’s Parliamentary Radio publications and podcasts, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother


One in Five: NASUWT
Reference Code:
SOBA 6/3/31
Description:
National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, the Teacher's Union. From the 'Features' section
Collection:
Women’s Parliamentary Radio publications and podcasts, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother



Audio tape of Phyllis Willmott's oral history interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1915-29
Reference Code:
YUNG 10/6/3
Date:
2000 (creation)
Description:
Side 1: Michael Young's mother, Edith Young, an actress and teacher, and his father, Gibson Young, a violinist; doubts about whether his father was actually a Russian Communist refugee, who lodged with the family in Hale, Greater Manchester; the family's move to Melbourne, Australia, and their life there; his experience of parental neglect; his father's return to England; the possibility of adoption; his move to live at his grandparents' home in Melbourne, with weekly visits to his mother; his return to England with his mother to live in London; and the gradual breakdown of his parents' relationship. Duration: 35;06 minutes. Recorded on 10 November 2000.
Side 2: happier memories of childhood in Australia, swimming in the lagoon, a tram trip to the zoo, hiking in the hills, and his mother's literary circle of friends; living with his parents in one room in Chelsea in London on their return to England; elementary school near the Fulham Road and boarding preparatory schools in Bristol and in Cockfosters; and moving at the instigation of an aunt, who was involved in progressive education, to Dartington Hall School. Duration: 28:29 minutes. Recorded on 19 November 2000.
Collection:
The Papers of Michael Young


Audio tape of Phyllis Willmott's oral history interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1929-33
Reference Code:
YUNG 10/6/4
Date:
2000 (creation)
Description:
Side 1: Michael Young's introductory visit to Dartington Hall School and being driven round the estate by Whitney Straight; further memories of the Grange preparatory boarding school in Cockfosters; his interest in sport; starting as a pupil at Dartington; his mother, Edith Young, living with the writer Philip Henderson at Abbotsbury in Dorset; a room of his own at Dartington; the children's dining room and the good and plentiful food; the informal teaching style in private rooms, the children's involvement in deciding the curriculum and non-compulsory attendance at lessons; working on the estate, particularly the orchard, the cider house, and growing daffodils; his interest in painting, influenced by his artist uncle, Ronald Ossory Dunlop, and his art teacher, Adrian Kent; winning a scholarship and meeting Dorothy Elmhirst; repairing and racing old motorbikes with a fellow pupil; Whitney Straight buying an aeroplane and learning to fly; the new Headmaster, W. B. Curry; and Dorothy Elmhirst and her children. Duration: 42:44 minutes. Recorded on 9 December 2000.
Side 2 is unused.
Collection:
The Papers of Michael Young