[{"node":{"title":"Boyd030","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1960 Dec 1st","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd030","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Jimmy Young, The Mousetrap","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd030","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/Boyd030_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff1st December I960.\n\nDear Victor:\n\nYour tapes and your letter arrived safely yesterday\nand I am replying almost immediately. I am most grateful\nto you for doing these recordings. At the moment, of\ncourse, I don't know which of the two good questions will\nbe chosen, but if Doreen Alexander's one is chosen I will\nget in touch with her parents. It would be useful for me\nto have their address!\n\nI'm glad to know you are still enjoying life. You\ncertainly are getting a great variety of experience both\ninside and outside of Radio, and that's all to the good for\na young fresh-minded man (I have now put on the mantel of\nsenile, if not senior, statesman of this disestablishment).\nI'm afraid that we are still mucking through in the way of\nlife familiar to you. Nothing very exciting in the way of\nprogrammes. However, the 'loose-box' standard is well up\nto its glories of former years and the news is as untopical\nas ever. As you probably know, a lot of the producers haven\nbeen sent to Clarence Street which is now known as The Salt\nMines. Sam Bell seems quite happy there but Ronnie feels\nas if the BBC have him half way out. The theatre here is\nflourishing with a Jimmy Young farce which looks like running\nas long as The Mouse Trap in London. But really the atmos-\nphere in Belfast is at' the moment very dull, and the only\nstories I have for you are personal anecdotes of people you\nknow here - the usual small talk which is better related\nover a bottle of stout. Do you ever get a drink of that\nby the way - or do you confine yourself to exotic oriental\nwines and drugs?\n\nI have passed your news over to Diana who is doing all\nthe hard work in connection with this Commonwealth edition\nof \"Your Questions\". It really seems a life time since we\npassed each other on the moving staircase at Piccadilly and\nthen had a nice evening ending up in the pub with the\nLancastrian folk. Outside it is a dull, grey, missling\nDecember afternoon. I long for some sunshine and bright\ncolours.\n","Type":"Text"}}]