Unidad documental simple BBR-18712/4/2 - Seán Ó Riada BBC Contract

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.