Identity area
Reference code
BBR-18712/4/2
Title
Seán Ó Riada BBC Contract
Date(s)
- 3 May 1971-10 May 1971 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 page
Context area
Name of creator
(1912-1985)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Original typed letter/contract from Ben Travers, Copyright Department, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, London, to Len Clifford, Seapoint, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Commissioning Seán Ó Riada ‘to write the incidental music for our Television Drama Play “The Playboy of the Western World.”’ A fee of ‘£8.00 per minute’ is suggested but has been amended to £8.50 and initialled. The fee is to ‘cover composition, scoring and the right to record the music as desired for world television and world showing of non-paying audiences.’ The contract is signed by both Ben Travers & Len Clifford.