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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.

Showing 101 - 125 of 452 Records

Oral history: Douglas Gough

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/74

Date:: 2023-12-18 (creation)

Description:: Includes coming to Cambridge; scholarship exam; student life; supervising; working in the United States of America; founding of the Institute of Astronomy and Sir Fred Hoyle; Fellowship at Churchill; Tutor for Rooms and Finance; Moller Institute; the Churchill community; reflections.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Victor Brown

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/75

Date:: 2024-01-29 (creation)

Description:: Recording and transcript of interview by Paula Laycock with Victor Brown. Includes: Conservation work and early experience/training; setting up the conservation workshop; VIP visits; special treatments and collections; early Archives staff, Edwin Welch and Dr Hoskin; Lord Hailsham's papers.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Professor Dame Athene Donald

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/76

Date:: 2024-01-31 (creation)

Description:: Includes appointment to the Mastership; Admission and chairing meetings; Master's Lodge and privacy; impact of Mastership on personal and professional life; the Covid-19 pandemic; Moller Institute; Development and Fundraising; Challenges; Looking ahead.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Edith George and daughters, Carol, Frances, and Tamara

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/77

Date:: 2024-05-24 (creation)

Description:: An oral history recording with Hywel George's widow, Edith and their daughters, Carol, Tamara and Frances, which was recorded shortly after Hywel's death. Hywel andEdith lived with their daughters at 70 Storey's Way from 1971 until Hywel retired as Bursar in 1991. This recording captures some of their reminiscences about Hywel's life in College during this period, and of living in the house.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Matthew Donald

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/78

Date:: 2024-09-25 (creation)

Description:: This is one of a series of recordings with Master's spouses. Includes: first impressions; living and working in the Master's Lodge; supervising; the pandemic; College events; dinners, talks, postprandials and Burns' Night; MCR Conference on Everything; mentoring; Churchill Scholars; Churchill staff.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Colin Fraser (interview 1)

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/79/1

Date:: 2024-09-27 (creation)

Description:: This recording focuses on Colin Fraser's first period on the Hanging Committee in the 1980s, and also on the circumstances leading to his appointment as Senior Tutor in 1995. Includes: Peter Lyon; the appointment of Dhruva Mistry as Artist By-Fellow and acquisition of sculpture; the Churchill College Art Foundation; and the Scientific Drawings Collection.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Colin Fraser (interview 2)

Reference Code:: CCRF/141/79/2

Date:: 2024-11-06 (creation)

Description:: This recording covers the period of Colin Fraser's Senior Tutorship (1995-2000); addressing academic results; academic standards; the Baxter Tables and student attitudes. Includes reflections on the Hanging Committee in the 2000s, and the Anthony Caro and Jeppe Hein sculptures.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

"Churchill College: June 1962-May 1964"

Reference Code:: CCRF/151/21

Date:: 1962-06-1964-05 (creation)

Description:: Black and white film documenting the construction of Churchill College. Credit sequence reads "Sound: Paul Barton, Titles: Martyn Stroud, Producers: Nigel Birch, Andrew Bird". The film was directed by Dr Andrew Sinclair and the narrator was Andrew Bird, reading from his own script.

Scenes in the film show: plans of the college; a cricket match; the building site, cranes, and workers' compound; building in progress and rubbish and mud on site; piles of building materials including bricks piled with straw between them to protect against breakages; scaffolding; the workers' routine leaving the site at the end of the day, some in a Rattee and Kett bus, and arriving in the morning; social life in the college including playing croquet, the common room, temporary kitchen and meals in the temporary dining hall; details of construction work including brick laying, copper lining on exteriors, and construction of main staircase from concrete; the arrival of undergraduates; decoration and fitting out of the interior of the college including plastering, laying timber floors, tiling and painting; undergraduate activities including socialising, academic supervisions, sport; a college garden party with Sir John Cockcroft, Richard Sheppard, Andrew Sinclair, John Morrison, George Steiner and Denys Armstrong; and finally the completed building and tree planted by Sir Winston Churchill.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Film of student life at Churchill College

Reference Code:: CCRF/151/22

Date:: 1961-1964 (creation)

Description:: Includes films taken using a cine camera showing: Rag Day 1961; visit by David King's parents; rowing including Fairbairns 1962, training in 1963, and May Bumps 1963; Canon Noel Duckworth at a football match (shows Sir John Cockcroft in the background); punting. Also includes a section "around college in 1964" showing students Chris Cant (wearing green sweater), Mike Peskett. David King is the student in his room when Chris calls on him. Also includes copy of an email from David King with further information about the film.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Denis Kelly

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/DEKE

Date:: 1979-1986 (creation)

Description:: Interviews with [Richard] Denis Kelly, former archivist (1947) and research assistant (1948-57) to Winston Churchill. Two interviews, one conducted by Correlli Barnett (1979) at Kelly's flat, one conducted by Pat Ackerman (1986) at Churchill College.

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Doreen Pugh

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/DPGH

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Doreen Pugh, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill (1955-65).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Evan Davies

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/EDVS

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Evan Morydd "Bish" Davies, former Detective Sergeant with the Special Branch, on his personal reminiscences of Churchill, 1948-50.

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Elizabeth Gilliatt

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/GLTT

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Elizabeth Gilliatt, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill, (1945-55).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Cecily "Chips" Gemmell

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/GMLL

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Cecily Gemmell, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill (1947-51) and Clementine Churchill (1951-53).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Grace Hamblin

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/HMBL

Date:: 1985 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Grace Hamblin, former assistant secretary to Winston Churchill, (1932-38), secretary to Clementine Churchill (1939-45), secretary and administrator at Chartwell [Kent] (1945-65).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Kathleen Hill

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/KHLL

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with [Rose] Kathleen Hill, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill, (1937-45).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Sir Anthony Montague Browne

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/MGBN

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Sir Anthony Montague Browne, former Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, later seconded to the Foreign Office (1955-65).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Sir John Martin

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/MRTN

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Sir John Martin, former Private Secretary (1940-41) and Principal Private Secretary (1941-45) to Winston Churchill.

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Nina, Countess of Onslow

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/ONSL

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Nina, Lady Onslow [earlier "Jo" Sturdee], former personal secretary (1941-45) and principal personal secretary (1945-53) to Winston Churchill.

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Sir John Peck

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/PECK

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Sir John Peck, former Private Secretary to Winston Churchill (1940-45).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Patrick Kinna

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/PKNN

Date:: 1986 (creation)

Description:: Interview with Patrick Kinna, former confidential assistant to Winston Churchill, (1941-45).

Collection:: Churchill Oral History

Roy Astley Richards

Reference Code:: CHOH 1/RRDS

Date:: 1978-10-12 (creation)

Description:: Talk 'Churchill the man' by Roy Astley Richards OBE, personal bodyguard to Sir Winston Churchill 1945-46, given at the River Thames Society, Marlow, in 1978, along with a copy of the notes for the speech.