John Alldis interviewed by Terence O'Neill in the Terence O'Neill collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1547713
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Alldis, John, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1982 Jun. 7
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 31 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono
- Series:
- Terence O'Neill collection.
- Summary:
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Alldis speaks of his first meeting with Boyd in the early 1940s at King's Chapel, Cambridge while he was a choir boy there, his first impressions of Boyd particularly how amusing and irreverent he was of the Establishment, the contradictions in his personality, his generosity and thoughtfulness, how after he returned from the Army as a Calwell scholar to Cambridge he again met Boyd in 1950 by chance at the Chapel and renewed their friendship travelling with him twice to France for holidays, their meeting with Boyd's relations Lennox Boyd at the House of Commons for lunch, Boyd's conflict with the authorities over his not undertaking war work, how he ran into him again this time in Italy when Alldis was touring there in the early 1960s and Boyd's search for the roots of Renaissance art or possibly Catholicism, how easily Boyd could be offended.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on June 7, 1982, in London, England.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 11 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Novelists
- Other authors/contributors:
- O'Neill, Terence, 1940-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1982
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