DL/A-Z//ARM - [Correspondence with Mark Armory of the Spectator]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//ARM
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Mark Armory of the Spectator]
Date/s
16/06/1995-24/04/1998
Quantity & Format
2 Letters (typescript)
1 Postcards, picture (monochrome)
1 Notes (MS)
1 Article
1 Press cuttings
1 Postcards, picture (monochrome)
1 Notes (MS)
1 Article
1 Press cuttings
Corporate name
Spectator, The
Personal name
Aldiss, Brian
Creator
Armory, Mark
Scope and content
001 is a note from Mark Armory of the Spectator to Doris Lessing. He asks her to consider reviewing the book Difficult Women, Artful Lives.
002 is a reply from Lessing to Armory. She refuses to review Difficult Women, Artful Lives because she considered its subjects Isak Dinesen and Olive Shreiner to be too different from each other. She suggests writing a piece "called Talking Heads, about what it is like being televised in one of these Cultural programmes".
003 is a photocopied press cutting of Matthew Parris's article "Those who work in television lie to each other, lie to the people who go on it, and lie to the viewer", from The Spectator 20/04/1996.
004 is a letter from Lessing to Armory, enclosing her own article Talking Heads, and mentioning the Matthew Parris article.
005 is the carbon copy of Lessing's Talking Heads. It describes and critiques the experience of being interviewed for cultural television programmes including The South Bank Show, Omnibus and Bookmark. It mentions television conventions, Zimbabwe and Brian Aldiss. Describes Lessing throwing a television crew out of her house. [quotable and lively material]
006 is a postcard from Armory to Lessing, thanking her and informing her that her article has been forwarded to the arts department of The Spectator.
002 is a reply from Lessing to Armory. She refuses to review Difficult Women, Artful Lives because she considered its subjects Isak Dinesen and Olive Shreiner to be too different from each other. She suggests writing a piece "called Talking Heads, about what it is like being televised in one of these Cultural programmes".
003 is a photocopied press cutting of Matthew Parris's article "Those who work in television lie to each other, lie to the people who go on it, and lie to the viewer", from The Spectator 20/04/1996.
004 is a letter from Lessing to Armory, enclosing her own article Talking Heads, and mentioning the Matthew Parris article.
005 is the carbon copy of Lessing's Talking Heads. It describes and critiques the experience of being interviewed for cultural television programmes including The South Bank Show, Omnibus and Bookmark. It mentions television conventions, Zimbabwe and Brian Aldiss. Describes Lessing throwing a television crew out of her house. [quotable and lively material]
006 is a postcard from Armory to Lessing, thanking her and informing her that her article has been forwarded to the arts department of The Spectator.
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//ARM - [Correspondence with Mark Armory of the Spectator]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit