1.
Stage Shows in which Joyce
Grenfell appeared:
All UK unless
otherwise stated.
DL – Diana Lyddon -
stage manager; WB – William Blezard, pianist.
1940-41
Farjeon’s Diversion - Wyndham’s
Theatre, London - 3 spots
1942 ENSA
tour of UK
1942 Light and Shade Herbert Farjeon revue,
Ambassador’s theatre, London
1944 ENSA
tour of North Africa with Viola
Tunnard
1944-45
ENSA tour of Middle East and India with Viola Tunnard
1945-6 Sigh No More, Noel Coward revue,
Picadilly Theatre, London.
1945- 23
February 1946. UK Tour of Sigh No
More
1947-8 Tuppence Coloured, Laurier Lister revue,
tour of Cheltenham, Leicester,Bournemouth, Brighton, Edinburgh. October 15, 1947 London: Lyric,
Hammersmith, moved to the Globe. 247 performances.
1951-2 Penny Plain, Laurier Lister revue, St Martin’s Theatre, London. Tour of
Bournemouth, Glasgow, Liverpool, Brighton.
1952 –
Six week tour with Viola Tunnard for British troops in Libya and
Egypt.
1954-5 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure -
first solo show with dancers Three's Company, tour of Cambridge 26 April -1 May;
Brighton 2-8 May; Folkestone 10-15 May; Dublin 17-22 May; Bath 24-29 May.
Fortune Theatre, London 2 June -25 September 1954; St Martin’s Theatre, London
27 September - 29 Jan 1955. UK tour: Stratford 14-19 March; Glasgow 21-26
March,; Aberdeen 28 March-2 April; Edinburgh 4-9 April; Manchester 11-16 April;
Leeds 18-23 april; Liverpool 25-30 April; Oxford 2-7 May; Streatham 9-14 May;
Golder’s Green Hippodrome 16-21 May (256 performances)
1955 Requests the Pleasure Stratford,
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford, Streatham,
Golder’s Green. St Martin's Theatre, London with Three's Company and
WB
1955 Requests the Pleasure, on Broadway, for
8 weeks. Music -George Bauer
1956 Joyce Grenfell at Home, Tour of Michigan, Toronto, Ottawa, Buffalo,
Niagara, Washington, Lyceum Theatre, New York – Music -George
Bauer
1956
Two week tour of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia) with Viola
Tunnard.
1957 Joyce Grenfell at Home tour to Dublin,
Glasgow, Newcastle, then Lyric Hammersmith for 4 weeks.
1958
Joyce Grenfell Bids Your Good Morning – Broadway, New York for four weeks,
Winnipeg, San Francisco, Beverley Hills, Chicago, Wisconsin, Boston. Music -
George Bauer
1959 –
Meet Joyce Grenfell, Philip
Theatre, Sydney, Australia.15 weeks with WB
1960 Tour of UK – Middlesborough, Harrogate (
see orig J&G) Music – DL and WB
1960 Seven Good Reasons, seven charity shows
Scala Theatre, London– DL and WB
1962 Joyce Grenfell Haymarket Theatre,
London, followed by tour of Glasgow, Harrogate, Huddersefield, Brighton,
Manchester and Cheltenham. DL and WB
1963 -
Tour of Australia – Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Launceton, Melbourne,
Perth , , Wellington, Queensland and Sydney. Music - WB
1964 –
Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Music - Blezard
1964
Switzerland and Hong Kong Music - Blezard
Tour of
UK. – DL and WB
1966 –
Perth, Melbourne, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney -
WB
1966- Wolverhampton,
Coventry, Malvern, Solihull, Grimsby, Richmond, Eastbourne, King’s Lynn,
Cambridge, Norwich – DL and WB
1966
–Melbourne, Perth, Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand – Auckland,
Christchurch and Wellington ; Beverley Hills, USA.
-WB
1967
-Tour of USA and Canada, Los Angeles, Okklahoma, St Louis, Mount Vernon, Toronto,
Kohler, East Lancing, Michigan, Cleveland, Williamsburg, Baltimore– DL and WB
Eight
week tour of UK, Felixstowe, Worthing, Portsmouth, King’s Lynn, Southend,
Southampton, Derby, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Liverpool, Birmingham, Richmond Yorks,
Newark, Stratford-upon-Avon, St Alban’s, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,
Chichester, Bury St Edmund’s,
Guildford - with DL and WB
Hong Kong
with WB
1968 tour of UK, Bury St Edmund’s,
Chichester, London, St Alban’s, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newark, Richmond Yorks,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Derby, Southampton, Southend, King’s
Lynn, Portsmouth, Worthing, Felixstowe -– DL and WB
1968
Harrogate, Sunderland, Folkestone, Guildford, Eastbourne, Welwyn, Oxford, Derby,
Nottingham, Kings Lynn – DL and WB
1969 Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Cambridge,
Tunbridge Wells, East Grinstead, Portsmouth, Bath, Hastings, Colwyn Bay, Hale
Park, Guildford. ( with DL and WB).
1969 –
Tour of Australia with WB.
1970 USA
with WB
1970
Brighton, Hastings, Canterbury, Nottingham, Leicester, Gloucester – DL and WB
1972 UK
tour- Wavendon, Richmond, Stirling, Bath, Salisbury, High Wycombe, Coventry,
Rochdale, Leeds, Aldeburgh, Wallesey, Sheffield, Northampton, Brighton-– DL and
WB
1973 Last
performance, Waterloo Diner, Windsor Castle – DL and WB
2.
Books by Joyce
Grenfell
Nanny Says, Dobson, 1972 & 1987. Collection of sayings, introduced by
Joyce.
By Special Request, Macmillan, 1973. Joyce's first autobiography, covering
her life from birth up to her first solo show in 1954.
George, don't do that, Macmillan, 1977. Nursery school
sketches.
Stately as a galleon, Macmillan, 1977. More theatrical sketches
and songs.
In Pleasant Places, Macmillan, 1979. Joyce's second autobiography, covering
her life from 1954 to her retirement in 1973.
Joyce by herself and her
friends, Macmillan,
1980. A posthumous collection of
portraits by old and young friends and relatives, with some of her
poems.
An Invisible Friendship, Macmillan, 1981. Collection of letters
between Joyce and Kathleen Moore, an English teacher and poet whom she never
met.
Turn back the clock, Macmillan, 1983. Collection of monologues, poems and
songs.
Darling Ma, Letters to Joyce Grenfell’s
mother, 1932-1944, edited by
James Roose-Evans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
The time of My Life, Entertaining the Troops
- Her Wartime Journals,
edited by James Roose-Evans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.
Joyce and Ginnie, Letters of Joyce Grenfell
and Virginia Graham, edited
and introduced by Janie Hampton, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. Serialised by
Hampton on BBC Radio 3.
Hats off! The poetry and drawings of Joyce
Grenfell, edited and
introduced by Janie Hampton, John Murray, 2000. Serialised by Hampton on BBC
Radio 4.
3.
Monologues by Joyce performed
on the radio and stage
1939 - Useful and acceptable
gifts, recorded 1939.05.11 ; Different Kinds of Mother: Village Mother, recorded
1939 .05.11 ; American mother recorded 1939.05.11; The Understanding
and rather English Mother; Head Girl ; Committee
1940 -
Canteen in wartime; Local Library; Companion Pieces: The Friend who talks; The
Friend who gets lost at the cinema.
1942 -
Cardboard Figures 1. End of Affair; Cardboard Figures 2. Her Ladyship‘s maid;
Cardboard Figures 3. Young Thing in a straight play; Woolgathering; Situation
Vacant; End of Affair
1945 -
Travelling Broadens the Mind ( revised 1955); Nursery School – Nativity
Play.
1947-
Artist’s room - a pair of front stalls, a group of balcony tickets, a pair of
complimentary tickets, one single top balcony unreserved; Odyssey
1948 -
Going abroad for the hols; Amateur actress in a costume play
1949 -
Nursery school- going home time
1950 -
Life and Literature ( at RSC for Sir John Gielgud, then Penny Plain);
Thought for Today ; Nursery School – flowers; Nursery school - sing song
time
1952 -
Tristam ( the boy who went to church); Nursery school – Biscuits and Milk; A
Little Talk.
1954 -
Women at Work I - Antique Shop ; Women at work 2 - Behind the counter; Women at
work 3 - writer of children’s books ; Private Secretary ( originally performed
by Betty Marsden in Air on a shoestring in 1953); Young Musician, before
her first London recital; Mother and Daughter ; Shirley’s Girl Friend - Mr
Pilchard’s Discovery.; Visitor - cocktail party; Fern Brixton ( Extra Sensory
Perception)
1957 -
Friend to Tea; Wibberly; Shirley’s Girl friend - Fun Fair/ (The giant wheel in
USA); Christmas Eve; Nursery School - free activity; Teacher ( written for Diana
Churchill, later performed by JG)
1959 -
Life story, ( wife of famous musician); Boat Train; Counter-wise; Simple Setting
(American woman having portrait painted); Telephone call (originally performed
by Bettina Welch in Sydney) ; Shirley’s Girl friend – Beauty Through Body
Control.
1960 -
Shirley’s Girl Friend 2 - Picnic Place
1962 -
Fern Brixton; Dumb Friend; Speeches I, 2 & 3; Shirley’s Girl Friend 3-
Foreign Feller; Nursery School -
Story Time.
1964-
It’s made all the difference; Shirley’s Girl Friend 4 - Music festival; Opera
Interval;
1965 -
Lally Tullet; The Past is Present I - old boyfriend on waterloo station; Past is
Present 2 -school reunion; Eng. Lit. I - Interview
1967 - A Terrible Worrier ; Eng. Lit. II - An
Event; Good old Jennifer; The wedding is on Saturday
1968 -
Nicodemus’s Song ; Eng. Lit. III – Anarchy.
1969 -
One is One and All alone; First Flight
1971 -
Mulgarth street
4.
[Composer in brackets]
1940 - I’m in love with a Gentleman [Virginia Graham]
1942 - I’m going to see you
today, recorded 1942.09.03 [Richard Addinsell}
recorded 1942.03.11 with
orchestra conducted by Harry Acres; also recorded by Gracie Fields. ( c Keith
Prowse)
1942 - Security Song, words by Virginia
Graham sung to tune of My Bonny lies over the ocean, originally published as a
poem in Punch.
Leonie (words by Harry
Graham, music by Virginia Graham]
There is Nothing New to tell
You [Richard
Addinsell]
Drifting Grenfell [Richard
Addinsell]
I’m going to see you today
Grenfell [Richard Addinsell]
1943 - Turn Back the Clock
[Richard Addinsell] ( c Keith Prowse)
Someday – Grenfell [Richard
Addinsell] ( c Keith Prowse)
They’re a lovely bunch of
boys Grenfell [Richard Addinsell]
End of wartime leave
[Richard Addinsell]
There but anywhere in the
world [Richard Addinsell]
1945 - Oh Mr du
Maurier! [Richard Addinsell]
1946 - When you Go, [Virginia Graham and Richard Addinsell] sung by Evelyn
Laye in Elusive
Lady
1947 - One Wet White Monday
[Donald Swann]
The Countess of Cotely
[Richard Addinsell]
I like life Grenfell
[Richard Addinsell]
Echo song [Richard Addinsell]
Rainbow Nights [Geoffrey Wright] ( from Tuppence
Coloured)
1948 -
Teacher [Richard
Addinsell]
1949 - The Wedding of Miss
Duck, [Viola Tunnard]
Charlie Parker’s Flower
song, [Viola Tunnard]
1951 - A penny isn’t a penny any more
- opening chorus from
Penny Plain –[Richard Addinsell]
Penny
Plain Finale [Richard
Addinsell]
Festival Calypso [Richard
Addinsell] (sung by Elisabeth Welch
Joyful Noise [Donald Swann]
Running Commentary [Richard Addinsell]
Keepsake
(Picture Postcard) Phipps &
Grenfell /[Richard Addinsell], A Moment with Tennyson (or Maud), Nicholas
Phipps & Joyce [Richard Addinsell].
Songs my mother taught me:
Since bacon has gone up a dollar a pound, [Viola Tunnard]; Fare thee well Old
Joe Clark; never mind the weather; Yellow rose of Texas [Viola Tunnard]; All the
pretty little horses [Viola
Tunnard]; Wrong songs for wrong singers [Viola Tunnard]; I’m gwine away t’leave
you, [Viola Tunnard]; I’ll lend you my horse ; Hand me down my bonnet, [Viola
Tunnard]; Seems like time; I heard a voice [Viola Tunnard] Snowball; [Viola
Tunnard]; All night, angels
watching over thee; Sit down
Sister, [Viola Tunnard]
Love at Last -[Richard
Addinsell], based on the theme from
Somerset Maugham’s film ‘Encore’.
1952 - Teacher ( Oranges
and lemons revue)
Rainbow
Nights [Geoffrey Wright] sung by Daphne Oxenford and
Diana Churchill in Oranges and
Lemons.
Private Secretary - (Air on
a Shoestring, originally performed by Betty Marsden
All Night, & Lord’s gin
to set this world on fire, [Viola Tunnard]
My Heart’s as light as air,
[Richard Addinsell], played by Tunnard. August 1952
I don't ‘arf love yer, [
Kenneth Mortimer and Richard Addinsell],
Narcissus
[Nevion-Paramor] recorded by JG and Norman Wisdom with Norrie Paramor and
his orchestra
1953 – One Wet Whit Monday [
Donald Swann]
Ordinary morning [Richard Addinsell]
Old Willy Waddle [Viola Tunnard]
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell]
Old Willy Waddle [Viola Tunnard]
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell]
Career Girl [Richard
Addinsell] originally performed by Elisabeth Welsh in Pay the
Piper
Ballad [Richard
Addinsell]
Palais Dancers [Richard
Addinsell]
Hostess[Richard
Addinsell]
Ethel [Richard Addinsell]
The Music’s message [Richard
Addinsell]
Encores [Richard
Addinsell]
Three Brothers [Richard
Addinsell]
Mrs Mendlicote [Richard
Addinsell]
The Whizzer - [Richard
Addinsell]. first performed by Elie and Doris Waters and Sally Steward in Pay
the Piper
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell],
Encores [Richard
Addinsell]
1957 - The woman on the bus [Richard
Addinsell]
All we ask is Kindness
[Richard Addinsell]
Five songs to make you sick
[Richard Addinsell]
Learn to Loosen [Richard
Addinsell]
1958 - It’s Almost tomorrow. [Richard
Addinsell]
Opening Numbers [Richard Addinsell]
London Scottish
[Grenfell]
1959 - You don’t need more than a Small, Bare
room [Richard Addinsell]
Dear Francois [Richard
Addinsell]
Golden Wedding[Richard
Addinsell]
Boat Train [Richard
Addinsell]
French Bergeretter, [Richard
Addinsell]
1962 – Old Tyme Dancing
(Stately as a Galleon) [Richard Addinsell]
1964 - Visitor [Blezard and
Grenfell]
What shall I wear ? [Richard
Addinsell]
Pop-Song - [Richard
Addinsell]
Lullaby [William Blezard],
1964
1965 - I wouldn’t go back to
the world I knew [Richard Addinsell]
Hymn [Richard Addinsell]
Bring back the silence
[Richard Addinsell]
Ferry Boats of Sydney
[William Blezard]
Come Catch me [William
Blezard]
1967 - Good Old Jennifer [William
Blezard]
Unsuitable [William
Blezard]
Bene Molte Bene – Britten
celebration song [William Blezard]
Not in the mood for
news/[William Blezard]
1969 - Private I [William Blezard]
Duet [Richard
Addinsell]
Thursdays [Grenfell]
1969
Wrong song for wrong singers
[Richard Addinsell/ Tunnard/ William Blezard], Slow down [William Blezard]
1973 – See you very
Soon [William Blezard] - performed
at Windsor Castle as an encore.
Slow down [William
Blezard]
In Case Of… [William
Blezard]
* In BBC Sound
Archive
Transatlantic
Quiz to North America, 15
April 1941.
Australia Magazine
with Geraldo’s band, 21 June 1941
Tonight we
Present, Joyce and Edith
Evans earned eight guineas each for broadcasting to BBC North America a
selection from Diversion. 21 Jan
1941.
Saturday
afternoon- July 5
1941
Blitz
Scrapbook Told by Radio,
Presented by Cecil Madden and Gerry Wilmot, 1941 *
Joyce Grenfell
Feature 18 May
1942
Revue High
Spots’, June 9
1942
Monday Night at
Eight, 7 Sept 1942; 4
January 1943 ;15 march 1943, 1 November 1943, 3 July 1944, 23 April 1945,
Victory Night at Eight (recorded 15 April 1945) then broadcast on 14 May 1945; April 15, 28 October
1946; 8, 16 December 1946, 26 may
1947
Variety Band
Box, 25 March 1942 , 5 Sept
1943, 25 June
1944
Henry Hall’s Guest
Night, 14 August, 1942, 18
December 1941; 22 march 1950, 31 October 1951 ; 3 Jan 1951; 2 April 1952; 28
October 1953; 30 Sept 1953, 23 December 1953; 8 march 1957
The Whoopee Club
- 31 January 1942 -
Lets Get
Aquainted, 22 September
1942,
Songtime in
Laager, 15 Sept
1942
London
home, 23 Dec
1942
Anzac
Hour, 5 March
1943
Cocktails, Kippers and
Capers, 18 March, 29 April,
3 June, 25 May, 17 July October 7 1942 1 March 1943
Ghost walks on
Fridays, 10 April
1943
Brains
Trust May 3 1943
Palestine Half Hour, 6
June, 1943
London Letter to
Europe, 24 June
1943.
Jack’s
Dive, august 12
1943.
Middle East Merry-go
round 26 November, 1943
The Dansant,
Sept 14
1943
Cabaret 27 Sept 1943
Navy
Mixture, 14 October 1943, 10
august 1944.
Vaudeville of
1943, 25 December 1943
Personal
Choice - poem, Jan
1944
Sketch, January 1944
Transatlantic quiz with David Niven, 1944
All Star Quiz, 1944
Atlantic
Spotlight, 5 August
1944
Canadian Band of the
Supreme Allied Command, 14
august 1944, 18 June 1945
Starlight, 26 June 1944, 17 May, 1945, 26 October 1945
august 18, September 11, 11 October,1946, Jan 16 1947
Here’s wishing you well
again, 24 August, 19
September, 1944; 12 October 1945, 24 May 1945, 26 Feb, 19 march, 5 march, 12
march, 26 mach 2 April, 1946, 5 Nov, 12 Nov, 19 Nov, 17 Dec 3, Dec and 10 Dec
1946
SEAC party
27 Sept 1945
Lucky Dip17 October 1945
Monday Night at
Eight, Victory edition, with
Arthur Askey and Richard ‘stinker’ Murdoch, Kenneth Horne, Batchelor Singers,
BBC Variety orchestra, with Ian Blair, 14 May 1945*
Quiz Team, January 1 1946
Sentimental
Rhapsody, 3 January 1946 ,
15 February 1946
These Passing
Shows, 5 January
1946
Music Hall, 28
September 1946
You can’t miss
it, September 1946
Personal
points, 19 October
1946
Music by
Melachino, 12 October, 25
October, 16 November 1946
Radio
oddities, November 10 1946
The Critic on the air, BBC Third
programme, 12 December 1946 *
Plain
English – 4 programmes, 1946
In Town
Tonight 1946-1965
x12
Monday Night at Eight, Jan and May 1947
Waiting for
ITMA, Feb
1947
A Note with
Music, Feb 22, March 1, 8,
15, 22, 29, 1947
Caribbean
Carnival, March 1947 , July
1949
Transatlantic
quiz - 10 programmes from
March 1947
Alhambra of the
air, Nov 9
1947
Britain’s Pleasure
Paradise, Oct 21
1947
On with the
music, Oct 31 1947
Chronique des
spectacles, European service -
French Nov 17 1947
Transatlatic
quiz, Feb 20 1947; Alistair
Cooke was in New York; 3 May 1947;
from Paris to New York, June 1947.
On with the
music, Oct 31 1947
Chronique des
spectacles, European service –
French, Nov 17
1947
The Laughtermakers 1947, No 16, The art of Joyce Grenfell’
script by Gaie Pedrick production Tom Ronald with Laurier Lister, Charlotte
Leigh, George Benson, Virginia Graham, Kenneth Bird. Gladys Young, Richard
Addinsell, 26 March 1957 *
6 jan, 22, 25, 29 Jan*, 1,
5, 8, 12, 15, Feb 1952; March, 13 Feb, 19 Feb, 1952;
23, 30 Sept, 7 Oct 14, 21,28
Oct 1949; 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov; 2,9,16, 23, 30 Dec, 6,13,20 Jan 1950; Jan, 28 Jan,
4 Feb, 11 Feb cancelled due to King’s death, 18 Feb, 25 Feb, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
March, 7 April, 1952. 31 December 1952.
24 Dec 1953, 28 December,
4,11,18,25 January; 5 February 1954. 23, 30 Sept, 7 Oct 14, 21,28 Oct 1949, then
another 6 after that - 4,11,18,25 Nov, 2,9, Dec 1949; 16, 23, 30 Dec, 6,13,20
Jan 1950.
Poetry
reading, 10 April 1949
The
Critics April 7,14,21,28
1949; 12 times from 1945-67
Christmas
scrapbook 1948x2, 1957,
1961
Musical
Memories, June 1949
Woman’s
Hour - I am not as unkind as
I seem, first talk, May 1949; 4 July 1949; 22 December 1950, monologue about
Shirley’s Girl friend and songs, accompanied by Viola Tunnard. Guest of the
week, December 1951; 7 Feb 1952; Enjoying people, 25 Jan 1957; 40th
anniversary of radio, Nov 11, 1962, Joyce interviewed herself ; Garden to Garden
- about Chelsea Rectory garden; In praisse of virtue, March 1960; letter from
America, April 1960; Things I have laughed at, 21 Dec 1961; Letter to Someone Else’s
Daughter, Spring 1962. Progress; My
kind of novelist ( Jane Austen); A philosophy of giving, 1966. My Kind of Magic,
June 1965; Letter to a friend, May 20 1974. Be My Guest; Hats, woman’s hour quiz
- In my opinion; The pleasures of winterr; Escape route,
1949 –1976 at least 112 times (mainly 1956-68),
Cross Channel
Quiz, 14 July; 30 July
1949
Joyce Grenfell
entertains, 22 Sept; 20 Dec
1949
Poems 1949, 1970x2
Talk, BBC Australia 23 November,
1949
Famous
women 1949
Poetry
reading, 10 April 1949
The Critics April 7,14,21,28
1949
Musical
Memories, June
1949
Caribbean
carnival, July
1949
Joyce Grenfell
entertains, BBC Home
service, 22 Sept, 20 Dec,
1949
My
Miscellany, children’s hour,
12 March 1950
Eastern Brains Trust, 6 march, 13,
March 1950 (Eastern English service)
Film Time, 29 June 1950 plus 7 more
The pleasure of never
being bored, Australia BBC
radio, 1950
Mirror of the
Month 1950 X
2
Theatre & Film
Carnival
1950
The Joke’s on
Us, Overseas service, 6
April 1951
Festival
Parade, 23 June
1951
Penny
Plain, July
1951.
Desert Island
Discs, August 8 1951; 22 May
1971.*
Same time, same
place, with Stephen Potter,
North American service, 24 July 1951.
Limelight. 7 Sept 1951
Leisure
Hour, 15, 22, 29, Nov, 6,
13, 20, 27 Dec 1951; 9 July, 6,23 July, 6 august, 20 August,
1952
Movie
Matinees 1951
x2
Book by the
fire’, 25 Jan
1952
This I believe, interview
for North American service, BBC
The Perfect woman,
March 24 1952,
Star Show, Nov 15 1952; 14 Feb 1953
The wrong shape for dancing, three biographical talks by Joyce Grenfell, BBC World
Service, 19 august 1953. *
Saturday Night on the
Light, 7 Feb
1953
Variety
Playhouse, 1 august
1953
I know what I like, 6 December 1953
Ask me
another
1953
St. Trinian’s, January,
1954
The Hundredth Boat Race, 2 April
1954
The Type of Man I
like, October 10,
1954
Stories of
Childhood, 26 December ,
1954
Music Club, a talk about musical
taste, 3 December 1954
The Worst
years 1954
Music
Club 1954
This is
Britain, talk, April 1956
Home for the
day, - talks June
1956
These foolish
things, 6 and 20 Julie, 7
Sept 1956; December 1957
Question time 1957
Younger
Generation - Question Time
10 Feb 1957
The
laughtermakers, 9 march 1957
Talk on My
Father, June 1957
Christmas
Story for Pacific service,
November 1957
In Town Tonight,
19 June, 11 November
1959
Pick of the
week 1959 -70 x 18 times
(including Leslie Smith)
London
Lights, 22 November 1960, 7
Feb 1961, 4 April 1961
In town
today, 19 Sept
1960*
Talking about
music, 23 Mar 1961,
*, 12 Jan 1961
The Norman Wisdom
Story, 9 Feb
1961
Talking about
music, 23 Mar
1961*
In town
today, JG talks of satire to
Leslie Mitchell, 1962.03.09. *
Woman’s
Hour, Joyce Grenfell
interviews herself, 26 Sep 1962*
Any
questions, 5 December 1962
in Bristol
Frankly
Speaking, 4 April
1964
Five to
Ten, 'Enjoying Christmas
with Joyce Grenfell', produced by Joanna Scott-Moncreiff, Light programme, 15 December
1964
JG in comedy
parade, 17 Dec 1964.*
Roundabout, 11 August 1964 ( with Carole
Allen)
Ten to
Eight 1965 -70 x
10
Movie go
round 1965
Grenfell at
home, 10 Dec
1965*
The Time of my
Life, 24 Aug 1967
*
The Dansant,
radio 4, 7 marsh
1969
Ten to
Eight, 12 February , 25
March 1969
Beginning with the
Bible, July 20,
1969
Wishes for A God-child,
March 1969, included in an anthology published by BBC
Any
Questions - 28 March 1969
*
Talking about
music, the first day of the
week, 29 April 1969*
Tribute to Stephen
Potter, 2 Dec 1969
Radio Christmas
card, 23 Dec
1969
Talking about
music, 29 April 1969,
*
Subject for
Sunday, Leslie Smith, Jan 5
1970.*
Something sensational to
read in the train’ -
diaries, 8 June 1970
With great
pleasure, selection of prose
and poems, 10 Sept 1970.
Pause for
thought, 26 august 1970 and
1 Jan 1971 - 7 may 1971, 11 August 1971, 1 Dec 1971 , 9 March 1972, 18 July 1972
.
Thought for the
day, talk on Christian
Science, produced by Rev Colin Semper, 10 January 1971
Does God make a
difference? BBC World
service, 14 Sept 1971
Desert Island
Discs, 14 May
1971*
My Kind of
Music, 18 July 1972
Pause for Thought, produced by
Shirley du Boulay, 2 X1972
Pick of the
Week, Friend for Tea, 5
august 1972.
Pied
Piper - interview with David
Monroe, 25 October 1972
Friend for
Tea, Pick of the Week 5
august 1972.
Grenfell on ENSA, 1973*
The Entertainers -Joyce
Grenfell, 28 March 1973
*
Ragtime to rock n
roll, 23 Sep 1974,
*
Noel Coward, 16 Aug 1975. *
Reading for
pleasure, 24 Nov
1975*
Story of revue, 3 March 1976, *
Alastair
Sim, 23 Sep
1976*
Themes from Childhood, interviewed by Derek Parker, produced by
Ronald Cook. BBC World service, 1976 *
This Glittering Bird on
the wing, produced by Andre
Sloman, with Nigel Rees, Laura Grimond, Mark Bonham Carter, Lady Elliot, Anne
Symonds and Joyce Grenfell
26 Oct 1976
*
Servant of the
music- a portrait of Myra
Hess, 1977.*
100 years of
Wimbledon, 6 May
1977*
Through my window,
14 Sept 1978
Laughter in the
air , Dec 1978 *
Kaleidoscope, 7 aug 1979, *
Grenfell and
Bakewell, 29 Aug. 1979
*
Joyce Grenfell talks with
illustrations, Rosehill
Theatre, Richmond, Cumbria, September 15 1979. Bristol.
Tribute to Joyce Grenfell - English radio service, South African
Broadcasting Company, 20 January 1980 *
A
Feast of Joyce Grenfell,
presented by John Amis, 27 August 1995*
Each edition was a complete
rewrite and new broadcast.
How to apply for a job -
1943
How to talk to children, 8
June, 27 July, august 3 1943 , 31
august 1944
How to Argue, 27 Sept
1943*
How to give a party, 23
December 1943, March 26 1950*
How to Keep a Diary, 10
august 1944, 31 august 1944
How to learn to speak
French, August 1944
How to Woo - 12 September
1944
How to go to the Theatre,
April 1945, 29 Dec 1950
How to Blow your own
Trumpet, April 1945, 14 March 1946, 24 May 1947
How to be Good at Music, 24
June 1945
How to Talk to young People,
14 November 1945
How to make friends, Nov 20
1945
How to deal with Christmas,
19 December 1945; November 1951
How to Move House, 3 April 1946. *
How to go
to the ballet, August 1946
How to Listen, 20 and 30
September, 16 November 1946; 1947; April 2, 1950; July 1951;
Sep 18, 1962.*
How To Salute the BBC,
1947.*
How to be Good at Games, 24
December 1947, 25 December 1951
How to Travel July 19
1950
How to deal with New Year,
January 1952
How to go to the Theatre, 30
guineas, 29 Dec 1950
How to broadcast. 28 September 1951,
*
How to cross the Atlantic
First Class August 20 1955
How to know America really
well September 2 1955
How to lead a really full life - May 17
1955
Some Television
appearances:
Starlight , 9 June 1946, 18 august 1946, Sept 11, 1946, 11 May 1949, march 1
1950
The Joyce Grenfell
programme, Oranges and Lemons, in which Joyce did
Rainbow Nights with Daphne Oxenford
and The Teacher, 27 April 1949.
London
Town, 21 April 1950
Music for
You, 13 December 1950
Woman of
Today , 20 July
1950
We Beg to
Differ, produced by Ian
Carmichael chaired by Roy Plomley, Jan 8 ,15,22,29, every week to Feb 12 1951
I know what I Like,
19 November 1952.
Snapshot, 28 October 1953;
Joyce Grenfell requests the
pleasure -6 January 1954
Panorama - June 8
1954
Music for You, 15 August
1955 ; 18 April 1956, 6 March 1957
Joyce Grenfell request the
pleasure with Viola Tunnard, 13 July, 23 July 10 august and 24 august 1956
A-Z, 4 January 1957
‘I know what I like’ 15
November 1957
Chelsea at Nine, Granada TV,
December 1957 (first time on ITV)
Tonight
with Cliff Michelmore; 17 October 1957 ; 27 May 1958 ; 17 November 1959,
26 September 1960
Wednesday
Magazine August 12 1958
Music for
You, 28 December 1958 , 13
December 1960
Music
Quiz, 15 Dec 1966, 16 may,
25 may 1967
Face the
music, producer Walter
Todds, June 27 1967, 28 Nov 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975,
1976,1979
Pippa
Longstocking, Jackanory, January 1968
Show of the week, Feb
1969
Nature
Spectacular, June
1971
The Animal
Game , Bristol wild life
quiz programmes, 1971
The Incomplete Collected
works of Joyce Grenfell and composer Richard Addinsell with recent musical
additions of William Blezard, BBC 2, 1972 repeated
1991.
Parkinson 1976
Tribute to Joyce Grenfell, BBC television, produced by Geoffrey
Baines, 1980
Radio Appeals:
Women’s Holiday fund, 1947;
Time and Talents
Association, 1954;
Yately Industries for
Disabled Girls, 1956;
St Andrew’s Society for
Helping Poor Ladies, 1957;
Employment Fellowship, 1961;
Society of Friends of the Poor and Gentlefolk’s
Help, 1963;
Family Welfare Association,
1966;
Voluntary services overseas,
1967;
Family Services Unit, 1970;
Council for Preservation for
Rural England, 1971;
House of St Barnabas, Soho,
1975.
Children’s Holiday Fund,
1979
Benefit concerts
Countess of Munster’s Wool
Fund, 1940
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Hospital for Women, 1940
Free French, 1940
Land Army, 1943
National Savings Movement,
1943
Jewish Services Clubs,
1943.
National Council of Girls
Clubs, 1943
East Anglian floods, 1947
Pestalozzi Chiledren's Villate, 1951.
Jewish Support, 1951
St Luke’s Hospital, Chelsea,
1957
Coventry Cathedral,
1962
Family Planning centre,
Newcastle, 1964
Old people’s welfare,
Nottingham, 1964
National Association of
Youth clubs, December 1971
Feathers Clubs, East End of
London
Edinburgh youth clubs,
1966
National Women’s Institutes,
1967.
Save the Children Fund,
1967
Lifeline (for European
refugees), Cambridge, 1967.
Commonwealth Society for the
Blind, 1968
Shelter , Newcastle upon
Tyne, 1968
Shelter, Liverpool Housing
Trust, 1968
Myra Hess Trust,
1968
Nursery schools, Sydney,
1969
Royal Commonwealth society
for the blind, 1968 &1970
Feed the Minds, York,
1970
Aldeburgh Festival, 1967 and
1970
Feather Clubs Association,
1972
Marriage Guidance
Council
Wavendon All-Music Plan,
1969
The National Trust,
1970.
Family Service Unit,
1972
Young Women's
Christian Youth Association, 1951
Women’s
Institute, 1950
Chelsea Housing Tenant’s
Association, c 1950
Old Peole's week, 1951
National association of
girls’ and boys’ clubs, Nov 14 1951
National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Nov 21 1951
Kensington Baby Competition,
October 15 1951.
Girls Friendly Society,
1951
Actor’s Orphanage, designed
a Christmas card, 1951
Golder’s Green Waifs and
Strays Fund, 1951
Actor’s Studio Fund, New
York, 1955.
National Council for Civil
Liberties, 1969
Family Services Unit, 1972
Help the Aged, 1973
World wild life fund. May
1973
Churchill Fellowship Trust, 1974
Women’s International
Decade, 1975
Artists Benevolent Fund
Margaret Macmillan
Children’s Centre, Bradford, 1970
Judge of Best Kept Village
in Northumberland, won by Bamburgh and Whittingham, 1970.
Feathers Club Association -
Christmas card drawn by Joyce
Family planning centre,
Newcastle upon Tyne;
Old people’s Welfare Club,
Nottingham;
Save the Children Fund,
1972
Tredescant Chelsea gardens,
1977
PHAB ,
1977
British Music Hall
Society;
Grange School for the
Disabled,
Claremont Fan Court
School
Society for Theatre
Research,
Womens’ Royal Voluntary
Service,
Children’s Country Holiday
Fund,
Winged Fellowship Trust;
Catholic Stage Guild,
National Library Week,
1969.
Harrow School speech
competition, 1972.
Community Centre, Bradford,
1973.
Royal National Lifeboat
Institution, Cranster,1977
Corrymeela Link,
1979
Society of Women Writers and
Artists, 1975
Wavenden All Music Plan,
1975
Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds.
National Council for
Craftsmen, 1979.
English Speaking Union,
1979
Merseyside Pre-Retirement
Association, 1979
Friends of the V&A
Musuem, 1979
Rosehill Theatre, Cumbria,
1979
Financial donations
to:
Aldeburgh Music Festival, 1967
Chichester Theatre,
1962
Countless other charities
and people not known about.
British-American Fellowship Society;, (President) 1947
Lancaster College of Technology, 1967.
Truro
Cathedral, 1972
Worshipful Company of
Musicians, 1965
Heads of BBC departments, 1965
Society of Women writers and
journalists, ( President)1966.
Churchill College,
Cambridge,
Southwark Cathedral,
dedication of plaque to Oscar Hammerstein, 1966
Lucy Cavendish College,
Cambridge, (as Honorary Fellow), 1968
St Olave’s Church, London,
1970
Stour Music Festival,
1972
Dartington Hall, Devon,
1972.
Young Christian Scientists,
Keele, 1972
Manchester Polytechnic (as
Honorary Fellow), 1973
St. Martin in the Fields
service for Help the Aged, 1973 [i][i]
Churchill Fellowship Trust,
1974
Manchester City Luncheon
Club, 1975.
Singing teacher conference,
Aldeburgh, 1976
Six Point Group (women’s
rights), 1977
Queen’s Silver Jubilee
Thanksgiving Service, Westminster Abbey, 1977
English Speaking Union, USA,
1977
Caravan Schools, Leeds,
1979.
St Mary-le-Bow church, 1967,
1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973,1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979
St Clement Dane’s church,
80th birthday of SWWJ, 1979.
Honorary Fellow of
Manchester Polytechnic [date unknown - before 1975]
First Honorary Fellow of
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge,1968.
Bibliography
used for Joyce Grenfell, the biography, by Janie Hampton published by John Murray, London,
2002.
Abbreviations:
UB - University of Bristol Theatre Collection, UK.
PC – Private
Collection.
BBC WAC - BBC
Written Archives Centre, UK.
Eton – Eton College
Archive, UK
Unless otherwise
stated, all are in private collections.
1. Primary
sources:
Oliver Bernard, manuscript
letters to Joyce Grenfell 1954 - 57. PC.
Janet Longcope, Phipps Ancestors, unpublished notebook ,
1958. PC.
Reggie Grenfell file, 1921-1994. Balliol College
Oxford.
Julia de Saint Saveur,
unpublished autobiography, 1998
Unpublished Notes by Joyce,
1955 –79, Bristol.
Joyce Grenfell, Manchester luncheon Club speech, unpublished, 1975.
Eton Calendar Book, 1893,
1922 and 1931. Eton.
Eton House Book, manuscript, 1917-1922.
Eton.
Lord Killearn’s manuscript
diaries, 1944, St Anthony’s
College, Oxford.
John Constantine
Phipps, Phipps of Westbury Wiltshire,
unpublished notes, 1980.- PC
Herbert Farjeon , press
cutting books, 1939-42. Bristol Theatre Collection..
Herbert Farjeon, notes for a
biography, unpublished, pre 1945. Bristol.
Script of a note with music with George melanchino
and the melanchino strings, fortnightly on Fridays 10.15-10.45 BBC home service,
1946-47, Bristol.
Scripts of ‘ a programme in
the shape of a letter to a friend overseas’ script by JG and HF Ellis (1946-7)
and George Benson ( 1949), BBC Home service, 1949, Bristol
Scripts of How to Listen, 16 Nov 1946; How to give
a party; How to move house; How to argue ( with CEM Joad) ; How to persuade; How
to deal with Christmas; blow your own trumpet; How to woo; How to talk to young
people; The Best of How; How to speak to children 1943; How to write a diary -
1945; How to make friends (with Celia Johnson); How to be good at music; How to
learn to speak French, Bristol.
Slough Social Centre, Annual
report, 1937-8.
Artists, Joyce Grenfell,
1936-1942 file 1A, BBC Written Archive Centre,
Artists, Joyce Grenfell,
File I 1946-1962 BBC WAC
Artists, Joyce Grenfell,
File IIA, 1945-46, BBC
WAC
Artists, Joyce Grenfell,
File IIB 1947-1949, BBC WAC
Artists, Joyce Grenfell,
file III 1950-54 BBC WAC
Artists- Joyce Grenfell,
File III 1943-1944, BBC Written
Archive Centre,
Artists - Joyce Grenfell,
File IV 1955-1962, BBC WAC
Artists. Joyce Grenfell,
File V 1963-67 , BBC WAC
COPYRIGHT File 1, 1940-1962,
BBC WAC
Bristol, Joyce Grenfell,
1963-1978, WE13/146/1 BBC WAC
Entertainment, Joyce
Grenfell, 1941-46, File R19/462, BBC WAC
Programmes, Joyce Grenfell,
File R19/1,675/1 BBC WAC
Programmes, Joyce Grenfell,
File ii, 1963-70, BBC WAC
Programmes, religion, Joyce
Grenfell, file: B/c 23-1969 BBC WAC
TV Joyce Grenfell, artists,
file I 1946-62, BBC WAC.
TV Light Ent, Joyce
Grenfell, 1951, file T12/187, BBC WAC
TV light Ent, Joyce
Grenfell, File T12/1,101/1, 1965, BBC WAC
Newspaper References
Theodora Benson & Betty
Askwith, Londoners face up to the Blitzkrieg, the Sketch, November 6,
1940.
Joyce Grenfell,
On Audiences, Everybody’s, 1951.
Verily Anderson, The
Townsend, December 1951
Joyce Grenfell,
This Glorious wall of laughter, London Calling, December 31,
1953.
Joyce Grenfell,
Sign posts to the Theatre, London Calling, December 24,
1953
Joyce Grenfell,
Shirl’s friend’s Christmas, Radio Times, December 18,
1953.
Joyce Grenfell,
Winston Churchill ( poem), The Observer, January 30
1955.
Esme Scott, Joyce
Grenfell is quite at home in Chelsea, TV Times, December 13,
1957.
Radio Times, January [ 15]
1972
TV Times, Teachers who were in a class of their
own, February 10 1972.
Christian Science Monitor,
First Times, Joyce Grenfell, January
5, 1977.
Letters written to Sir
Rupert and Lady Hart-Davis ( June) between
1968 and 1979 from Joyce Grenfell. unpublished, LCC.
Joyce Grenfell, letters to
Leonard Gershe, 1958 to 1979, unpublished, LCC
Letters from Joyce and
Reggie Grenfell to John Ward 1962-1979.
Joyce Grenfell, letters to
Herbert Farjeon and vice versa, 1939-45 Bristol
Joyce Grenfell, letters to
Verily Anderson, 1951 to 1979.
Letters between Katharine Moore and Joyce
Grenfell, 1957-79. LCC
letters from Sybil
Thorndike, Laurence Olivier, Clive James, Terence Rattigan, John Gielgud, John Betjeman, and Noel
Coward, Bristol
Letters from Joyce to Mrs
Joy Crawshaw, Yorks, 1972, Bristol,
Joyce Grenfell, letters to
Michael Olivier, 1966 to 1979.
Joyce Grenfell, letters to Mary Potter,
1955-1976,
Joyce Grenfell, letters to
Michael Flanders, 1960-74. Flanders and Swann Estate.
Benjamin Britten letters,
Britten-Pears Library and Bristol.
Letters from Oliver Bernard
to Joyce G, 1954-58.
Recordings of talks
Joyce Grenfell talks with
illustrations, Rosehill
Theatre, Richmond Cumbria, September 15 1979. Bristol
Bow Dialogues, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1979.02.27, recording
number C812/61 C4 *
Bow dialogues, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1977.12.13 JG presents
her own selection of Christmas music with the aid of Andrew Pearmian and his musicians
C812/58 C10 *
Bow Dialogues in dialogue
with Joseph McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1977.05.24 *
Bow Dialogues, 1976.10.12
Joseph McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG,
*
Bow Dialogues, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG,The Freedom of the
Spirit, 1975.06.24. This is the 450th of the dialogues,
*
Bow Dialogues 1974.12.17 at
Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, J McC and JG *
Bow Dialogues, 1973.04.03
Joseph McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG,
*
Bow dialogues, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG,1972.08.01 *
Bow dialoges, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1971.07.12
*
Bow dialogues, Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1970.02.24
*
Bow dialogues Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1968.12.17 C812/21 C1 recorded by Thames Television,
*
Bow dialogues Joseph
McCulloch, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow in dialogue with JG, 1967.01.10 C812/15 C20 *
web sites
http:/
us.imdb.com (films)
http:/
www.bestweb.net/~foosie/grenfell.htm (biographical details, links to imdb
film credits, details of revue programmes)
http:/ehresources/howmuch/pound.php
(cost of living index)
6.
Books
Alison Adburgham, A Punch History of Manners and Modes, 1841-1940, Hutchinson,
1961.
Aldeburgh Festival Programme
books, 1962-79.
Michael Astor, Tribal Feeling, John Murray,
1963
Bert Axell and Eric Hosking,
Minsmere, portrait of a bird reserve,
Hutchinson, 1977.
Herbert Axell, Of Birds and men, The Book Guild,
1992.
Cecil Beaton, The years between, diaries 1939-44,
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965.
Robert Becker, Nancy Lancaster - her life , her world, her
art, Alfred A Knopf, New York,
1996.
Nicola Bennett, Speaking Volumes, a history of the
Cheltenham festival of Literature, Sutton Publishing,
1999.
Oliver Bernard, Getting Over It, Peter Owen,
1992.
Daniel Blum, Theatre World Season 1955-56, Greenberg,
New York 1956.
Daniel Blum, Theater World Season 1957-8, Chilton
Company, New York, 1958.
Dirk Bogarde, A
Postillion a Struck by Lightning, Chatto & Windus,
1977.
Asa Briggs, The BBC, the first fifty years, Oxford
University Press, 1985
Asa Briggs, The Birth of Broadcasting 1896-1927,
Oxford University Press, 1995
Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United
Kingdom, Competition 1955-1974, Oxford University Press, 1995
British Non-Ferrous Metals Research
Association, BNF 1930-1955, 1955.
Matthew Bruccoli, Some
sort of epic grandeur, the Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hodder &
Stoughton, 1981.
Ian Carmichael, Will the real Ian Carmichael?,
Macmillan, 1979.
Humphrey Carpenter, Benjamin Britten - biography, Faber
& Faber, 1992
Humphrey Carpenter, The Brideshead Generation, Weidenfeld
& Nicholson, 1989.
Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, Bodley Head,
1964.
Elliot Coleman, Poetry, Dutton, New York,
1936
Maurice Collis, Nancy Astor - the authorised biography,
Faber & Faber, 1960.
Artemis Cooper, Cairo in the war, Hamish
Hamilton,1989
Joseph Cooper, Facing the Music - an autobiography,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979.
Noel Coward, Autobiography, Heinemann,
1986.
Noel Coward, Middle East Diary, Heinemann,
1944.
James Crathorne, Cliveden The Place and the People,
Collins & Brown, 1995 (Joyce’s photo album on pages 156 credited ‘Private
Collection’)
Jan Dalley, Diana Mosley - a life, Faber &
Faber, 1999.
Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles: society, etiquette and the
Season, Croom Helm, London, 1973.
Basil Dean, Theatre at War, Harrap, London,
1956.
Basil Dean, Minds Eye, Hutchinson ,
1973.
Ivo Elliott, ( ed) Balliol College Register 1833-1933,
Oxford, 1934
Etiquette for ladies: a guide to the
observance of good society,
Ward, Lock & Co, 1930.
Herbert Farjeon Omnibus, Hutchinson, c
1943.
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Intimate Strangers - in The Price was High - The last Uncollected
Stories, Quartet Books, 1979.
Kate Fleming, Celia Johnson - a biography, Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 1991
Peter Fleming, Invasion 1940, Rupert Hart-Davis,
1958.
James Fox, The Langhorne Sisters, Granta,
1998.
Rose Gamble, Chelsea Girl, BBC ,
1979
John Gielgud, An actor and his time, Sidgwick and
Jackson, London, 1979.
John Gielgud, Backward Glances, Hodder and Stoughton,
1989
Ingaret Giffard, The Way Things Happen, Chatto & Windus,
1989.
Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill,
1966.
Martin Gilbert ed., The Churchill Papers, Never Surrender,
Vol 2, Heinemann, 1994.
Martin Gilbert and Richard
Gott, The Appeasers, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson. 1963.
Margaret Gowing, Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-45,
Macmillan, 1964.
Charlotte Gray, Flint and
Feather, The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, HarperCollins,
2002.
Joyce Grenfell,
Easter , in By Request from ten to
Eight on radio 4, BBC publications, 1968
Joyce Grenfell and Hugh
Casson, Nanny Says, Dobson,
1972.
Joyce Grenfell, Requests the Pleasure, Macmillan,
1976
Joyce Grenfell, In Pleasant Places, Macmillan,
1979.
Joyce Grenfell and Katharine
Moore, An Invisible Friendship,
Macmillan, 1981.
John Grigg, Nancy Astor- a portrait of a pioneer,
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.
Janie Hampton ( ed.)
Joyce and Ginnie, the letters of Joyce
Grenfell and Virginia Graham, Hodder & Stoughton,
1997.
Helene Hanff, Q’s legacy, Penguin,
1986
Rupert Hart-Davis, The Arms of Time, Hamish Hamilton,
1979.
Rupert Hart-Davis, Halfway to Heaven, Sutton,
1998.
Selina Hastings, Nancy Mitford, hamish hamilton,
1986
Rosina Harrison, Rose - my life in service, Cassell,
1975
Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, John Murray,
1988.
Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life, Life & Times
1959-91, Chatto & Windus, 1992.
The Home Front - the best of Good
Housekeeping 1939-45, Ebury
Press, 1987.
David Holloway, ed. The Thirties, Simon & Schuster,
William Howe Downes, John Singer Sargent - his life and work,
Little Brown, Boston, 1925.
Richard Hugget, Binkie Beaumont, Hodder & Stoughton,
1989.
Robert Rhodes James (
ed.) Chips - the diaries of Sir Henry
Channon, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
Alan Jenkins, Stephen potter - inventor of
Gamesmanship, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1980.
J.D.F. Jones, Storyteller – The Many
Lives of Laurens van der Post, John Murray, 2001.
Cleo Laine, Cleo, Simon & Schuster,
1994.
Elizabeth Langhorne, Nancy Astor and her friends, Schuster,
1993.
Barbara Leaming, If this was happiness - a biography of Rita
Hayworth, Weidenfeld & Nicholson,
1989
Elsie Lemon (ed.)
The Balliol College Register,
1916-1967, private
circulation, Oxford, 1969.
Maureen Lipman, Thank you for having me, Robson,
1990.
Graham Lord, Just the one
– the wives and times of Jeffrey Bernard, Sinclair-Stevenson,
1992.
Nigel Luckhurst, A photographer at the Aldeburgh
Festival, Alistair Press, 1990.
Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1995.
Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos, The Memoirs of Lord Chandos, The Bodley
Head, 1962.
Brian MacFarlane, An
autobiography of British Cinema, Methuen, 1997.
Harold Macmillan, War Diaries - politics and war in the Middle
East 1943-45, Macmillan, 1989.
Alix Meynell, Public Servant, Private Woman, Victor Gollancz,
1988.
Francis Meynell, My Lives, Bodley Head,
1971
Joseph McCulloch, Under
Bow Bells, Sheldon Press, 1974
Nancy Milford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Bodley Head,
1970.
Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed (eds) Letter and diaries of Benjamin Britten
1913-1976 vols. 1 &2, Faber & Faber, 1991.
Favell Lee Mortimer, Reading without Tears, Hatchard’s, 1861.
Harold Nicholson, Diaries and Letters 1930-39, Collins
1966.
David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon, Hamish Hamilton,
1971.
Mary O’Hara, The Scent of Roses, Michael Joseph,
1980.
Hesketh Pearson, Bernard Shaw, Collins & Co,
1942.
Roy Plomey, Desert Island Discs, William Kimber,
1975.
Potter, Julian, Mary Potter- a life of painting, Scolar
press, 1998.
Elsie Quarrie, The School that Refused to Die - Frances
Holland School, London ,
1981.
Carter Ratcliffe, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press,
New York, 1982
Robert Rhodes James, ed. Chips , the Diaries of Henry Channon,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
Norman Rose, The Cliveden Set, - portrait of an exclusive
fraternity, Jonathan Cape, 2000,
Dorothy Sheridan, Wartime women , a mass-observation
anthology, Heinemann, 1990
Sinclair,
Astors and their times, Dent,1983.
Victor Stiebel, South African Childhood, Andre
Deutsch,1968
Margot Strickland, Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a lady
novelist, Duckworth, 1977.
Donald Swann, Swann’s Way, Arthur James,
1993.
Eric Taylor, Front-Line Nurse: British Nurses in World
War II, Robert Hale, 1997.
Andrew Turnbull, ed., The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald,
Bodley Head, 1963.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me, Heinemann,
1977.
Anne Valery, Talking about the War, Michael
Joseph, 1991.
Vogue’s Gallery, Conde Nast, London,
1962.
Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton - the authorised biography,
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1985.
John Ward, The paintings of John Ward, David &
Charles, 1991.
Jenni Wake-Walker, ed. Time & Concord, Aldeburgh festival
recollections, Autograph, 1997.
Dorothy Warren (Ed) The Letters of Ruth Draper, self-portrait of
an actress 1920-1956, Southern Illinois University Press,
1979.
Dorothy Warren, The World of Ruth Draper - portrait of an
actress, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Christopher Warwick, The Universal Ustinov, Sidgwick &
Jackson, 1990.
Emrys Williams, Bodyguard - My Twenty years as Aly Khan’s shadow,
Golden Pegasus, London, 1960.
Teresa Whistler, Imagination of the Heart, The life of Walter
de la Mare, Duckworth, 1993.
Derek Wilson, The Astors, 1763-1992, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1993.
Winn, Alice, Always a Virginian: The colourful Langhornes of Mirador, Lady
Astor and their kin, Lynchburg: Kenmore Association, 1982
M.E. Yapp (ed.) Politics and diplomacy in Egypt - the
diaries of Sir Miles Lampson 1935-1937, Oxford University Press,
1997.
Morton Dauwen Zabel, The Art of Ruth Draper, Oxford
University Press, London, 1960.
Interviews with
:
David Astor, Sutton
Courtney, August 25, 1998
Verily Anderson, Norfolk,
September 6, 1998
Marmaduke Hussey, London,
September 7, 1998
Dame Frances
Campbell-Preston, London, September 10; September 27, 1998; January 16, 1999; 11
June 1999; March 3, 2000; August 2001, March 2002.
Lady Rosamund
Holland-Martin, 1998.
Cleo Laine and Johnny
Dankworth, Chester, 1998.
Katharine McCellan, London,
September 27, 1998
Leslie Humphrey, Taplow,
Berks, 21 November 1998
James Fox, 24 November,
1998
Earl of Snowdon, London,
November 30, 1998
William Blezard, London,
November 30, 1998
Sally Phipps, New York,
December 2, 1998
Mary Phipps, Long Island,
December 3-7, 1998
Tommy Phipps, Long Island,
December 4-7, 1998
Lionel Larner, Long Island,
December 5, 1998
Alice Astor, Oxford,
December 15, 1998
Norman Wisdom, London,
January 14 1999
Judy Campbell, London,
January 16, 1999
Alice Winn, London, January
16, 1999
Elizabeth Winn, London,
January 16, 1999
Patrick Woodcock, Usez,
France, January 12-14, 1999
Hugh Martin, 1 March
1999.
Cass Allen, London, March 3,
1999
Gervase Farjeon, London,
March 3, 1999. DIED
Anne Harvey, London, March
3, 1999
Jean Gunn, London, March 3,
1999. DIED?
Frith Banbury, London, March
6, 1999
Graham Payn, 10 March
1999
Diana Lyddon, Buckingham, 10
March 1999
Roy Boulting, Eynsham, 16
March 1999.
Sheridan Morley, 26 March
1999, London
Tim Miller, 29 March 1999,
London
Susan Stranks, London, April
17, 1999.
Svend Bok, ( Slough), April
24, 1999.
Clive Evans, London,, April
24, 1999.
Margaret Flory, London,
April 28, 1999
Julia de Saint Sauveur,
Eastbourne, April 28, 1999
Lady Susan Hussey, Chewton
Mendip, May 2 1999.
Roberta Hamond, Norfolk, 4
May 1999.
Freda Troup, London, 11 May
1999
Michael Olivier, Oxford, May
9 1999.
Daphne Oxenford, Oxford, May
18, 1999
Jean and Christopher Cowan,
Aldeburgh, 20 May 1999
Muffet Harrison, Snape, 22
May 1999
The Dowager Countess of
Cranbrook, Aldeburgh, 23 May 1999
Julian and Valerie Potter,
Orford, 23 May 1999
John and Alison Ward,
Ashford, 24 May 1999
Joyce Young, Headteacher,
Slough Nursery school, May 27, 1999
Jonathan James-Moore,
Oxford, June 1, 1999.
Oliver Bernard, June 1
1999.
Kate Fleming, Nettlebed,
Oxon, 4 June 1999
Lady (Dione) Gibson, London,
11 June 1999
Michael Olivier of South
Africa, Oxford, June, 1999.
Tanya Fletcher, Dolphin
Puppeteers, 20 July 1999.
Priscilla Cunningham, July
27 1999.
Pam and Terry Curry, Parr’s
Cottage, Taplow, Bucks, 4 August 1999.
Phillip Cotton, Hilary
Boyes, Mary Rose, National Trust gardeners and staff, Cliveden, Buckinghamshire,
5 August 1999.
Lady Silvia Coombe, Burnham
Market, Norfolk, (sister of 5th Earl of Leicester, came out with
Joyce in 1928) August 27, 1999.
Katherine Moore, Shoreham,
Kent, November 4 1999.
Wynford Hicks, London,
November 5, 1999.
Carley Dawson, telephone to
Massachusetts, December 13, 1999.
Signalman Alfred Turner,
telephone to Norfolk, January 2000.
Nadine, Lady Killearn,
London, March 3, 2000.
John Julius Norwich,
telephone to London, April 18 2000.
Mary O’Hara, Newbury, 15
September 2000.
Right Rev. Simon Phipps,
West Sussex, October 18, 2000.
Gwen Rosswick(nee Cooke),
Telephone & letter, November 14,2000
Leon Berger, London,
February 17, 2001
Wendy Toye, London, February 17, 2001
Beryl Kaye London, February 17, 2001
Irving Davies, London,
February 17, 2001
Norman Newell, , 2 April 2001.
Helen Campbell-Preston, Taynuilt, August
2001.
Roy Loring, Royal Signals, ,
September 2001
Frank Darns, Artillery
Gunner, India, September 6 2001.
Jennifer Rose, November 2001.
Alan MacLean, November 2001.
Philip Lane, December ,
2001.
Geoffrey Wright, telephone,
25 January 2002.
Mr Michael Sanders, FFRCP,
FRCS, FRCOphth, 26 January 2002.
John Winstanley, FRCP
A Letter from Home, 1941, directed by Carol Reed, starring Celia
Johnson. Joyce played an American foster mother.
The Lamp still Burns, 1943, directed by Maurice Elvery and
produced by Leslie Howard, starring Steward Granger and Rosamund John. Joyce
played Dr Joan Barrett, a lecturer
on blood donation. Based on Monica
Dickens book One pair of
Feet.
The Demi Paradise, 1943, directed by ‘Puffin’ Anthony Asquith,
art director Carmen Dillon, starring Laurence Olivier, Margaret Rutherford, with
George Cole and Harry Fowler. Joyce played
Mrs Pawson, the town organiser who spreads joy and light. The first
of five films that Joyce and George
Cole were in together.
While the sun shines, 1943, directed by Puffin Asquith, by
Terence Rattigan., starring Ronald Howard.
Joyce was Daphne, an ‘ex-deb ninny’.
Design for
Women, 1947, produced by
Alan Jarvis, design by Audrey Fildes, written by Joyce Grenfell and Stephen
Potter. Made for Central Office of
Information by Merlin Films,
Poet's Pub, directed by Frederick Wilson, 1949 adapted
from the Eric Linklater novel Private
Angelo. screenwriter Diana Morgan ( 1910-1996). Starring Derek Bond, Rhona Anderson and
James Roberston-Justice. Joyce played a folk song enthusiast called Daisy
Horsfell-Hughes. Made in a new system called Independent Frame , which failed
after a few films.
A Run
for your money,
directed by Charles Frend,1949 Starring Donald Houston, Moira Lister and Alec Guinness.
Screenplay by Richard Hughes. Joyce played a dress shop owner.
Alice in Wonderland, directed by Dallas Bower,1950, produced by
Louis Bunin, directed by Dallas Bower, composer Sol Kaplan, Choreographer Roland
Petit, Director of photography, Claude Renoir. Joyce was the voice of the
Duchess and the dormouse. Co French production.
The Happiest Days of Your
Life, Dir Frank Launder,
1950 with Alistair Sim, George Cole and Margaret Rutherford. Joyce played gym
mistress Miss Gossage, with the immortal line ‘Call me Sausage’.
Stage Fright, 1950, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, with
Marlene Dietrich, Alistair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Jane Wyman & Michael
Wilding. Played a lady running a shooting gallery at the Chelsea Theatrical
Garden party.
Laughter in Paradise, dir. Mario Lampi, 1951 with Alistair Sim.
Joyce was a lady army officer called Fluffy.
The Magic Box, 1951 dir. Robert Boulting, starring
Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave,
Margarte Rutherford, Peter Ustinov & Maria Schell. Michael Hordern, Margaret
Jonhston, This had a huge all-star cast for the Festival of Britain made by the
Boulting brothers. Joyce played a chorister.
The Galloping Major, dir. Henry Cornelius, 1951. Joyce was a
cockney milk bar maid. Thora Hird: ‘Ealing
was called the studio with the family feeling.’
The Pickwick Papers, dir. Noel Langley,1952. Joyce played Mrs
Leo Hunter and Britannia at her literary fancy-dress
breakfast.
Genevieve,
1953, dir. Henry Cornelius, starring Kay Kendall, Kenneth More, Dinah
Sheridan. Joyce played a hotel proprietess with limited hot water.
The Belles of St Trinian's, 1954,
dir. Frank Launder, screenplay Sidney Gilliat (1908-1994), starred
Alistair Sim, Margaret Rutherford. Joyce was a policewoman disguised as a gym
mistress.
Forbidden Cargo, dir. Harold French1954. A documentary
thriller about smuggling, in which Joyce played a bird watcher. Michael craig, actor
born 1928 was in it. Michael Hordern,
The Million Pound Note, (The man with a million, USA) dir. Ronald Neame, 1954, starring
Gregory Peck. Joyce played an English Duchess. Maurice Denham, actor born
1909
The Good Companions, dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1957, a musical
version of JB Preistley’s novel about a provincial concert party in the 1920s,
with Celia Johnson.
Blue murder at St Trinian's, 1957, dir. Frank Launder, starring Terry
Thomas, George Cole & Alastair Sim. Joyce played a policewoman in love with
Terry Thomas.
Happy is the Bride, 1957, directed by Roy Boulting, starring
Ian Carmichael, Irene Handl and Athene Seyler. Joyce played the bride’s aunt and
improvised the Wedding March on the church organ.
The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s, 1960, dir. by Frank Launder, starring Cecil
Parker, George Cole and Irene Handl, Raymond Hintley
The Old Dark House, 1962, directed by William Castle, starring
Robert Morley and Fenella Fielding.
Based on a JB Priestley short story. Joyce played the housekeeper, Agatha Femm
.
The Americanisation of Emily, dir. Arthur Hiller, 1964, produced by Marty
Ransohoff, director Arthur Hiller, written by Arthur Hiller, starring Julie
Andrews, James Garner, James Coburn. Joyce played Mrs Barham, Julia Andrews’
mother.
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, directed by Puffin Asquith, written by
Terence Rattigan, ? 1964 starring Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman. Joyce played
Ingrid Bergman’s Virginian
travelling companion, Hortense Astor.
