The Richard Burton Diaries (236 page)

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——.
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——.
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Internet Sources

Much of the research into the diaries would have been more difficult without the wealth of resources now available online. Particularly valuable were the following:

ESPN Scrum:
www.espnscrum.com

Google Books:
books.google.com

Google Maps:
maps.google.com

Internet movie database:
www.imdb.com

Archival Sources

Richard Burton Collection, Richard Burton Archives Swansea University

RWB 1 / 1: Diaries

RWB 1 / 2: Correspondence

RWB 1 / 3: Printed Items

RWB 1 / 4: Photographs

RWB 1 / 5: Film, Television and Audio Recordings, Documentaries and Interviews

RWB 1 / 6: Film Posters

RWB 1 / 7: Programmes and Scripts

RWB 1 / 8: Screenplays and Scripts

RWB 1 / 9: Press Cuttings and Publicity Material

RWB 1 / 10: Framed Prints and Pictures

RWB 1 / 11: Objects

RWB 1 / 12: Miscellaneous

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Shakespeare, William,
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Y Geiradur Mawr

Newspapers and Magazines

Esquire

Glamorgan Gazette

Guardian

Life

Look

New York Times

Observer

Port Talbot Guardian

Sunday Express

Sunday Times

Time

The Times

Vogue

Wayfarer

Western Mail

Audio Recordings

David Copperfield
(1950)

Conversation Piece
(1951)

Under Milk Wood
(1954)

Homage to Dylan Thomas
(1954)

The World of Dylan Thomas
(1955)

Fifteen Poems by Dylan Thomas
(1955)

The English Poets
(1955)

Brad
(1958)

The Love Poems of John Donne
(1958)

The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
(1958)

The Rape of Lucrece and Other Poems
(1960)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1960)

King Henry V
(1961)

Camelot
(1961)

Coriolanus
(1962)

Henry V
(1963)

Hamlet
(1964)

Zulu
(1964)

‘A Married Man’,
Baker Street
(1965)

The Days of Wilfred Owen
(1966)

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
(1966)

The Little Prince
(1974)

A Personal Anthology: The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems
(1978)

The War of the Worlds
(1978)

‘All on a Summer's Day’, BBC, 31 December 1981

‘Thanksgiving Service for the Life of Richard Burton’, BBC, 30 August 1984

‘Tribute to Richard Burton’, BBC, 3 September 1984

Burton at the BBC
(1995)

The Richard Burton Poetry Collection
(2010)

Interviews

Richard Burton: My Time Again
, BBC, 19 August 1965

24 Hours
, BBC, 2 February 1966

Acting in the Sixties
, BBC, 1 April 1967

Burton and Taylor at Oxford
, BBC, 25 October 1967

Parkinson
, BBC, 23 November 1974

Dick Cavett Show
, PBS, 25 July 1980

Kane's Classics
, BBC, 9 April 1998

Films and Television Appearances

The Last Days of Dolwyn
(1949)

My Cousin Rachel
(1952)

The Desert Rats
(1953)

The Robe
(1953)

Prince of Players
(1955)

The Rains of Ranchipur
(1955)

Alexander the Great
(1956)

Sea Wife
(1957)

Bitter Victory
(1957)

Look Back in Anger
(1959)

The Tempest
(1960)

A Subject of Scandal and Concern
(1960)

Dylan Thomas
(1962)

The Longest Day
(1962)

Cleopatra
(1963)

The VIPs
(1963)

Becket
(1964)

The Night of the Iguana
(1964)

Hamlet
(1964)

What's New Pussycat?
(1965)

The Sandpiper
(1965)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1965)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1966)

The Taming of the Shrew
(1967)

The Comedians
(1967)

Doctor Faustus
(1967)

Boom!
(1968)

Candy
(1968)

Where Eagles Dare
(1968)

Anne of the Thousand Days
(1969)

Raid on Rommel
(1971)

Villain
(1971)

The Assassination of Trotsky
(1972)

Hammersmith Is Out
(1972)

Bluebeard
(1972)

Under Milk Wood
(1972)

The Battle of Sutjeska
(1973)

Divorce His, Divorce Hers
(1973)

Massacre in Rome
(1973)

The Klansman
(1974)

The Voyage
(1974)

Brief Encounter
(1974)

Exorcist II: The Heretic
(1977)

Equus
(1977)

The Medusa Touch
(1978)

The Wild Geese
(1978)

Breakthrough
(1979)

Tristan and Isolt
(1979)

Circle of Two
(1980)

Absolution
(1981)

The Fall Guy
(1982)

Wagner
(1983)

1984
(1984)

Ellis Island
(1984)

Narrations

A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1959)

Borrowed Pasture
(1960)

Zulu
(1964)

The Days of Wilfred Owen
(1966)

Robert Kennedy Remembered
(1968)

To The Ends of the Earth
(1983)

Elizabeth R: A New Film Biography
(1985)

Wales: Heritage of a Nation
(1987)

Television Programmes and Films about Burton

In From The Cold? The World of Richard Burton
, BBC/PBS (1989)

Richard Burton: An Actor's Life
, A&E (1995)