Swanzy Papers 1945-1956

Henry Valentine Swanzy

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Henry Swanzy began his career in the civil service after his education at Wellington College and New College, Oxford. He initially worked at the Colonial Office from 1937 to 1940 as Assistant Principal in various geographical departments and then in 1940 at the Dominions Office as Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. In 1941, Swanzy joined the BBC as News Talks Assistant, Empire Department, Overseas Division in 1941, and, apart from a period when he was s...

British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Swanzy Henry Valentine b 1915

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