Charles Parker’s career with the BBC

There are 158 items in the Archive relating to Charles’ BBC work, and a catalogue of these is available as a pdf file. Below is a brief summary of his career.

1948
BBC Staff Training Course

1949
European Production (Feature Writer)
North American Service (Talks Producer)

1950
The Drunkard, Directing The Aerial Players
British Industries Fair

1951
The Trade Unions and The Labour Government
Christmas At Wisbech
Marabu in the Fastnet (Recorded on board)
Ideal Home Exhibition (Women’s Institute)
Farm Life in Britain (Women’s Institute)

1952
Salute to W.L.F.H. (Greetings from round Britain)

1953
Visit to North America and Canada Broadcasting Services

1952-1953
London Column
Folk Music in Britain (Producer)
The House Without Windows (Rehabilitation of a Blind Person)
British Industries Fair 1952
Royal Agricultural Show (4 days in July)
The Anatomy of the British Film
Sunday Morning
Shakespeare’s Theatre
Coin of the Realm (Elizabeth II)
Royal Occasion (State Events of last quarter century)
Oxford
The Singing Valley (Wales)
Goof Neighbourhood (G.Lansbury, Poplar)
Submarine Comes to Town (HMS Auriga in London Docks)
April Fools Day (Writer & Producer)
Mr. Chandler Changes Gear (Business changes)
The Film Maker’s Point of View (Scriptwriter)
The Film Maker’s Point of View (Director)
The Film Maker’s Point of View, Three Dimensions

1954
BBC Staff Training - Mobile Recording Course
Who Do They Think They Are? (Local Government)
Bridge Across Silence (Birmingham Institute for the Deaf)
Men Against The Caves (Derbyshire Cave Rescue)
A Penny For Great Thoughts (Birmingham Midland Institute and School of Music)
Single Track To The Sea (Norfolk)
The Polar Bears’ Picnic (4th Armoured Div. Terrors)
Dr. John Conally (Midland Doctor of the Mentally Ill)
In a Blinder Wilderness (Writer - David Lytton)
God Rest Ye Merry(Christmas at St. Martin’s, Bull Ring)
Streets Ahead (Clifton Estate, Nottingham)

1955
Return to the Potteries
The Platoon and the Villages (Troops in Malaysia)
Post Prandial
The Ass, Thy Servant (The Donkey in Writing and Legend)
Open Country (Clumber Park, Notts.)
The Marriage of Johnny and Penny
The Saltboiler’s Son (Edwin Winslow of Droitwich – Pilgrim Father)
Shifting Sands (Comedy)
Take One Guitar (George Salter School, West Bromwich)
The Corelli Comeback (Drama )
The Star in the Snow (Fantasy. C.P. Writer & producer)
The Corruption of Carpenter’s Creek (BBC Midlands Staff Production)

1955
Three Score Years and Then?
Cathedral City - Birmingham
Any Dark Morning.
Tourist’s Round - A Guide to Oxford
Harvest The Sea, Sound Poem (T.V. version with Philip Donnellan)
A Way in the Making (Offa's Dvke)

1956
Sales Talk (A Sales Rep)
Country Buis (Oxfordshire )
Stallion Eternity (A Gypsy and his Horse)
The Teddy Boys’ Banquet
Behind the Bathroom Door (Turkish Baths)
A Sleep of Time (Drama, Mr Clark-Edwards )
The Lamp and The Flame (24 hours in hospital)

1957
Sir George For Merrie England (George Robey)
Nice Quiet Chaps (Parisian view of the English)
The Burslem Buccaneer (Joseph Weighill)
Monday at Seven (Northampton Rep.)
A Marvellous Convenient Place (Stratford Theatre)
The 15th Variation( Edward Elgar)
Together (Communal Farming in CIee Hills)
One Good Turn Deserves Another (Seamus Ennls)
Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year
Christmas Hootenanny

1958
Man on the Brink - Wisbech
People Today - Darkie Hunt - Traveller
The Ballad of John Axon (first Radio Ballad)
Landing English (Summer school for foreign students)

1959
Sweet and Lawless, Sam Larner (Co-produced. with P.D.)
Bold Neison’s Praise
Hootenanny
Song of a Road (Radio Ballad)
Torrents of Spring (Langham Group. C.P. sound track)
Shadow of Heroes (Hungary and Communism)

1960
Singing the Fishing (Radio Ballad)
A Meditation on Good Friday (St. Peter's, Harborne)
The Potter’s Gift (Choral traditions)

1961
The Jewellery (Birmingham)
The First Train Home (Dunkirk)
The Big Hewer (Radio Ballad)

1962
The Singing English
On the Eve (Teenagers)
Not Known in Denmark Street
The Body Blow (Radio Ballad)
Cry From the Cut (Canal People )

1963
The Story of Else Rosenfeld
The Long Journey (T.V. film P.D.)
Just Up Our Street (Birtley Folk Club)
The Singer and the Song (Sam Larner/Harry Cox T.V.)
On the Edge (6th Radio Ballad)
The Fight Game (Radio Ballad)

1964
The Travelling People (Radio Ballad)
Scan – Folksingers
New Wine into Old Bottles (Writer-C.P.)
The Colony (West Indians in Birmingham)
Landmarks - Birth (TV 1965 with P.D.)
Landmarks - School (TV 1965 with P.D.)
Landmarks - Factory (TV 1965 with P.D.)
Landmarks - Estate (TV 1965 with P.D.)
Landmarks - Pubs (TV 1965 with P.D.)
Landmarks – Old Age (TV 1965 with P.D.)

1965
Theatre in the Future
The Irishmen (TV.P.D. Soundtrack C.P.)
The Crack (Irish storytelling)
Take Six Men - Alderman Whatton
- Sir Alfred Owen
- John Madin
- Brian Walden MP
- Frank Owens
- Bishop S.A. Dunn
Business As Usual (Death of the Individual)
The Country Singers (T.V.)
The Song Carriers (Ewan MacColl. Producer C.P.)
Folksong and Ballad (6th prog. C.P. Prod. Roger Owen)

1966
Ready, Steady, Stop (Vox Pop)
The Abbey of the English (Westminster)
Romeo and Juliet
The Making of the Midlander

1967
BD 8 (Two films about the Blind. Dir P.D.)
She Rode on a Horse Naked

1958
The Blind Set
Peace of Mind (Meditation)
Asian Teenagers (Compiled – Dilip Hiro)

1969
Mixed Marriage
We Live Across the River (Dilip Hiro)

1970
You Must Just Tell Victoria
Revolt of the American Campus
Off Limits (Vietnam)
No Surrender - Londonderry

1971
Battle of St. Anne’s
The Tape Recorder and the Oral Tradition
The Blind Set
The Iron Box (George Jackson)
The Long March of Everyman

1972
Snowballs in Calcutta (with Dilip Hiro)
Siege in Ceylon (with Dilip Hiro)
Shoals of Herring (T.V. with P.D.)

1973
The Fight Game (T.V.)

1974
The Big Hewer (T.V.)

1975
Passage West (T.V.)

1977
Growing up in Tower Hamlets/ Black Parents

1979
The Other Music (T.V., History of Folk Revival)