[{"node":{"title":"Boyd029","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Oct 21st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd029","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Profane, Establishment","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd029","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd029_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff21st October I960.\n\nDear Victor:\n\nYou have been on my conscience as I have not replied to your\nlast very interesting letter. I have no excuse except that I have\nbeen very busy with one thing and another. It\u2019s good to hear that\nyou are enjoying yourself and doing all sorts of interesting work.\nI wish I could tell you that things here are taking a turn for the\nbetter and that we are leading this community back into sanity and\nsound thinking, but I fear that we are trailing behind and playing\nvery safe indeed in all things, holy and profane. I have little\ngossip for you except that most of the \u2018sound' staff have been\nswitched to Clarence Street offices and I hear mingle with seedy\nlinen ex-tycoons who lament the death of their industry, and with\nwhom sound broadcasting producers feel a deep sympathy. Donnie\nMason has returned from London in an imaginatively lit-up frame of\nmind. He is in Clarence Street, much to his chagrin, also Sam\nBell, John Body and Sam Denton and Uncle Tom Cobley and all...\nThe Talks Department, which as you know is part of the establishment\nis still with the Establishment on a day to day basis. But any day\nthe axe may fall and my feet will roll along Bedford Street.\nHeadless and witless and deliriously happy.\n\nTo be serious: the kind of questions I want for the Common-\nwealth edition of \"Your Questions\" are the kind of questions which\nwould interest listeners in Northern Ireland and also the country of\nwhich the questioner is residing. In other words, these Ulster\npeople have had the advantage of a double social experience, that is,\nliving in Northern Ireland and also living in a country with a com-\npletely different social background; therefore they should be\nconscious of social questions through a double vision as it were.\n\nThis may not be very clear, but I think you will get the general\nhang of what I mean. Again, questions should be crisp, controversial\nto the point, and up to the moment.\n","Type":"Text"}}]