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Jack Ronder was a Scottish dramatist, screenwriter and author who in the 1950s and 1960s was known for his socially acute plays before becoming a TV screenwriter.
The collection comprises television, radio and theatre scripts by writer Jack Ronder. Also included are manuscripts for several novels, along with newspaper cuttings, correspondence and theatre programmes.
- Western Bank Library, Sheffield, S10 2TN, South Yorkshire
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The Borderers is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1970. Setting. A historical drama series, The Borderers was set during the 16th century and chronicled the lives of the Ker family, who lived in the Scottish Middle March on the frontier between England and Scotland.
- Drama
Career. His five-part adaptation of the classic John Halifax Gentleman was shown by the BBC in January 1974 and his single plays over the years included The Day After Yesterday, for the BBC, A Summer Story for Yorkshire and two half-hour plays for the STV series, Short Story, called "My Secret Husband" and "Once Upon a Story", which went out in ...
The Lost Tribe was a six-part BBC Scotland Television Drama serial by Jack Ronder about the arrival of a Lithuanian Jew in Scotland, first broadcast on network BBC-2 from 16 November to 21 December 1980. Shortly before his death, Jack Ronder called the project the best thing he had ever written.
Directed by Jack Ronder and performed at the University Theatre, Edinburgh, 30 December 1957-4 January 1958 454/2/18/1 Programme. [Printed copy from digital file: ms454_m002_064] 1 454/2/19 Venus Observed Production by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group of 'Venus Observed' by Christopher Fry.
The serial is based on the true story of the writer Jack Ronder's own Jewish family after his grandfather fled Lithuania from the persecution of Tsarist Russia in 1885.
