Robert MacNeil Papers, circa 1950-2007

Container Title
Audio 1182A
Series: Audio Recordings
Early career
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronologically
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MacNeil as disc jockey on CJCH Halifax; reading Oscar Wilde poem on Your Poetry Corner, 1950s
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Saga of the Citizen / radio drama by Irwin Muss, directed by MacNeil, aired by CFRA, 1950s
Audio recordings from work on NBC
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MacNeil's telephone report on Bevan's funeral, 1960 July 8
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MacNeil's report on Gaitskill's death, 1963 February 19
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Weekend Report, 1963 August 4
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor; also reports from Moscow, Korea, Washington, D.C., and London.
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Weekend Report, 1963 August 11
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor; also reports from West Germany, Moscow, Tokyo, and Brussels.
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Weekend Report, 1963 October 20
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor. Also reports from Berlin, London, Algiers, and Washington, D.C.
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Weekend Report, 1963 October 27
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor. Also reports from Berlin and Paris and an Edwin Newman essay.
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News on the Hour, 1965 December 21
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor, and reports from Santo Domingo and London.
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Weekend Report, between 1962? and 1964?
Scope and Content Note: With MacNeil as anchor and reports from Saigon, Rio de Janeiro, Bulgaria, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Monitor, circa 1961?
Scope and Content Note: Interview with James Thurber.
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Unidentified program, between 1960? and 1962?
Scope and Content Note: MacNeil covering the Algerian revolution.
Miscellaneous Audio Recordings
Scope and Content Note: Contains: speeches by MacNeil; and radio interviews about MacNeil’s books (1986-2005) including The Story of English, Do you Speak American?, Burden of Desire and Wordstruck. Also includes a recording of a New York Public Library Literary Luncheon on the topic of “Two Sexes Divided by the Same Language” in which MacNeil appeared on the panel with Sally Quinn, Liz Smith and Erica Jong.
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Huntley-Brinkley: A Time to Keep, 1965
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Robert MacNeil before the Consumer Assembly, 1973
Scope and Content Note: “The Threat to Public Television”
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Eulogy to A.F. Tegen by Robert MacNeil, 1977 September 20
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“Edward and Mrs. Simpson,” Mobil Showcase, circa 1980
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Robert MacNeil, 1986 January 9
Scope and Content Note: America’s Front Page series at 92nd Street Y, New York City, topic “TV News.”
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Robert MacNeil, KOAP Radio, City Club of Portland, 1986 May 16
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Two interviews with Robert MacNeil, 1986 October 8, 1989 May 7
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Robin Radio (BBC) The Story of English, 1986 October
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American Focus interview, Jim Lehrer, 1988 September 18
Note: Also includes recording from December 2-3, 1989.
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Tom Snyder interviews Robert MacNeil, 1988 December 25
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Larry King Show, 1988
Physical Description: 2 tapes 
Scope and Content Note: The Way We Were: The Year Kennedy Was Shot
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WMCA Travel Show, 1989 January 7
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Studs Turkel interviews Robert MacNeil, 1989 March 23
Scope and Content Note: Wordstruck
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Howard Cosell, Speaking of Everything, 1989 April 8
Scope and Content Note: Interview about Wordstruck.
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All About Books, KPFK, 1989 April 15
Scope and Content Note: Wordstruck
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ALA Author Award Luncheon, Dallas, Texas, 1989 June
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American Focus interview with Robert MacNeil, 1989 December 2-3
Note: Also includes recording from September 18, 1988.
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Ten Years with Maggie, 1989
Physical Description: 2 tapes 
Scope and Content Note: Margaret Thatcher satire from the BBC.
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Radio interview, circa 1989
Scope and Content Note: Wordstruck
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Politics and the Pen, Ottawa, Canada, 1990 January 24
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Public Radio Book Show #99, 1990 June 3
Scope and Content Note: WAMC Tom Smith, host, Wordstruck.
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Paul White Award Banquet, 1990 September 27
Scope and Content Note: With Jim Lehrer.
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Phone interview with MacNeil, circa 1990
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Lee Rogers interview, 1991 August 9
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National Catholic Education Association Convention, circa 1991
Scope and Content Note: Robert MacNeil, “Education of the Cold War.”
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Book and Author Breakfast, 1991 Neba Trade Show, MacNeil and Barry, 1991
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Robert MacNeil, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1992 March 11
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All About Books, KPFK, 1992 April 4
Scope and Content Note: Burden of Desire.
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Literary Luncheon, 1992 April 16
Scope and Content Note: New York Public Library “Two Sexes Divided by the Same Language” Panel includes Robert MacNeil, Sally Quinn, Liz Smith, and Erica Jong
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CBC Radio adaptation of Burden of Desire, circa 1992
Physical Description: 2 tapes 
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Deborah Norville from Her Home to Yours: Robert MacNeil, circa 1992
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Ford Hall Forum, Robert MacNeil, 1994 March 10
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Robert MacNeil, International Reading Association, Toronto Convention, 1994 May
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Robert MacNeil interviewed about Jasper Johns’ MacDowell Medal, 1994
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As It Happens, interview, 1995 October 19
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Robert MacNeil call-in show, 1995 November 2
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Diane Rehm, The Voyage, 1995 October 23
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Robert MacNeil, 1995 November 15
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Conservator’s Forum, 1996 November 14
Scope and Content Note: Impact of the media on the 1996 presidential campaign.
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Robert MacNeil Symphony, 1997 March 26
Scope and Content Note: Includes “Why Don’t You Dance?” and “Curtain of Green.”
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Robert MacNeil with Peter Gzowski, Morningside, CBC, 1997 May 16
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Diane Rehm, Breaking News, 1998 October 21
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Alan Colmes Show, 1998 October 27
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Carl Angeloff, Bottom Line, 1998 December 12
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Radio Japan, Newsround, circa 1998
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Mordecai Richler Tribute, International Festival of Authors, Toronto Harbourfront Festival, 2000 October 18
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Fishko: Kennedy, 2001 November 16
Physical Description: Compact disc 
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Diane Rehm Show, 2003 May 20
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Forum: MacNeil, 2003 June 26
Physical Description: Compact disc 
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Survival Kit with Leonard Lopate, 2003 September 28
Physical Description: Compact disc 
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Diane Rehm Show: Do You Speak American?, 2005 January 12
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Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, 2005 August
Physical Description: Compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Do You Speak American?
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Milt Rosenberg, Extension 720, 2005 February 3
Scope and Content Note: WGN Radio, Chicago.
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Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network, circa 2005
Scope and Content Note: Joy Cardin interviews Robert MacNeil about Do You Speak American?
Theme music from MacNeil Report and MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
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Robert MacNeil Report themes, undated
Physical Description: 5-inch open reel 
Scope and Content Note: Includes variations such as “rock version.”
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Opening and long credit music, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, undated
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Transitions MacNeil/Lehrer closing theme music, undated
Physical Description: 2 tapes 
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Hoffer MacNeil/Lehrer variations, undated
Correspondence / Fan Mail
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Audio letter from Ruth Seeber of Lousville, Colorado, undated
Scope and Content Note: From Seeber who has lost her sight due to macular degeneration. She thanks MacNeil for the joy his book Wordstruck has given her.