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Material relating to radio broadcasts by or of works by Tony Curtis, comprising:

Material relating to radio broadcasts of the short stories 'Throwing the Punch' (broadcast as the Radio 4 programme Morning Story, January 1982) and 'Film Night' (broadcast as the Radio 4 programme Morning Story, March and April 1985) by Tony Curtis, with related correspondence addressed to Curtis from Morning Story producer Herbert Williams

Scripts of two radio broadcasts delivered by Tony Curtis, namely 'Chuck Berry Concert and Rock 'n' Roll' for the programme Sunday Best and 'Solo Voice' for BBC Radio Wales, 1994.

Typescript scripts of a radio play by Tony Curtis titled The Award. It appears that the script was initially proposed as a television play.

Undated letter to Tony Curtis from Siôn [?Eironwy] of the BBC relating to a broadcast of Curtis's poem 'Davies and his Daughters' on the Radio 4 programme 'Time for Verse'.

Radio broadcasts of poetry and prose by Tony Curtis, comprising:

Material relating to a radio poem by Tony Curtis titled 'Islands', narrated by Christine Pritchard, Frank Lincoln, Lindsay Evans and W. H. Roberts, to be broadcast on Radio 4, March-April 1975, comprising: copy of poem, scripted for four voices; copy of libretto of Requiem Mass in Latin and English; letter, 3 March 1975, to Tony Curtis from Edith Thomas, secretary to Dafydd Huw Williams, Radio 4 Talks Producer; records of fees paid to Tony Curtis for the broadcast poem; and press cutting relating to the broadcast.

Script of Tony Curtis's short story 'Throwing the Punch', broadcast 28 January 1982 for the Radio 4 programme 'Morning Story'.

Script of Tony Curtis's short story 'Working with Cyril', broadcast 7 December 1982 for the Radio 4 programme 'Morning Story' and read by John Darran.

Script of Tony Curtis's short story 'Umbrella', broadcast 15 March 1984 for the Radio 4 programme 'Morning Story' and read by Marilyn Le Conte.

Script of Tony Curtis's short story 'Film Night', broadcast 9 April 1985 for the Radio 4 programme 'Morning Story', with photocopied letters to Curtis from 'Morning Story' producer Herbert Williams.

Script comprising discussion of poetry compiled and presented by poet and physician Dannie Abse as part of Radio 3's 'Poetry Now' series, broadcast 7 April 1988, Tony Curtis being one of the poets presented in the talk.

Script of undated radio play by Tony Curtis titled 'Canada Dry', with amendments in Curtis's hand. The play appears to be an adaptation of a short story of the same name by Curtis (see under heading Some Kind of Immortality (Cinnamon Press, 2017) / Throwing the Punch / Short stories by Tony Curtis).

Draft and fair-copy scripts of a radio play by Tony Curtis titled 'Occupied Territory', a work which would eventually develop into Curtis's 2021 novel Darkness in the City of Light (see note on brown card paper in Curtis's hand).
See also under headings Plays by Tony Curtis and Darkness in the City of Light (Seren Books, 2021).

Including annotations/amendments in Tony Curtis's hand.

See also under heading Some Kind of Immortality (Cinnamon Press, 2017) / Throwing the Punch / Short stories by Tony Curtis.

Script of short story by Tony Curtis titled 'Film Night', with covering letter to Curtis from producer Herbert Williams informing that the story will be transmitted on Radio 4's Morning Story on 9 April 1985.