Graeme Roberts and Cicely Mathews papers

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Graeme Roberts and Cicely Mathews papers

1926-1956

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1113

Collection documenting the work of twentieth-century writer Graeme Roberts and radio broadcaster Cicely Mathews produced for BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast. Contains typescripts and manuscripts of plays, short stories, and poems, as well as a scrapbook.

1 Linear Feet, 4 containers

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677222

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Roberts, Graeme

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Graeme Roberts, husband of Cicely Mathews, was a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio presenter and actor in Northern Ireland. Roberts authored and presented numerous plays and short stories for Children’s Hour, Mathews’ children’s radio programme, which she ran from 1945-1964. Roberts also restarted a programme entitled Important To Us, which was a talk series on Irish affairs....

Mathews, Cicely, -1975

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Cicely Mathews, wife of Graeme Roberts, was a children’s radio presenter in Northern Ireland. Her radio programme, Children’s Hour, aired every day at 5:00pm. Mathews was formerly an elocution teacher, and had acted in more than 100 BBC radio plays before taking over Children’s Hour in 1945. Children’s Hour was withdrawn in 1964 due to the increasing popularity of television. Mathews died in 1975....