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Lance Sieveking (19 March 1896 – 6 January 1972) was an English writer and pioneer
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radio and television producer. He was married three times, and was father to archaeologist
Gale Sieveking Gale de Giberne Sieveking (26 August 1925 – 2 June 2007) was a British prehistoric archaeologist, best known for his work on flint and flint mines, particularly at sites such as Grimes Graves.Mesolithic.html" ;"title="r Mesolithic">r Mesolithica ...
(1925–2007) and
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-writer
Paul Sieveking Paul R.A. De Giberne Sieveking (born 1949) is a British journalist and former magazine editor. Until 2002, Sieveking was co-editor of the magazine ''The Fortean Times'' with its founder Bob Rickard. He joined the UK-based "Journal of the Unexplain ...
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Biography

Lancelot De Giberne Sieveking, D.S.C was born on 19 March 1896 in Harrow,
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.Lance Sieveking at the IMDb
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His parents were Edward Gustavus Sieveking, a timber-merchant, and Isabel Giberne Sieveking, an author and suffragette whose aunts included the Roman Catholic nun
Maria Rosina Giberne Maria Rosina Giberne (1802−1885) was a French-English artist and convert to Roman Catholicism. Early life The seventh of thirteen children, Giberne was born in Clapton, London in 1802, the daughter of wine merchant Mark Giberne and Rebecca Sharp ...
and Catherine Hopkins, mother of
Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovato ...
. He was a very creative child, writing from the age of six, and starting a novel aged 13 which would ultimately see print when he was 26. In-between, he "actively support dthe
Suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...
movement" before war broke out.


World War I

Sieveking (as well as his brother, Valentine Edgar Sieveking) served during
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. Lance signed up with the
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before "join ngthe
Royal Navy Air Service The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...
, nd winningthe D.F.C" before being "shot down over the Rhine" in 1917 and held as a German
prisoner-of-war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...
. Upon his return to England, he attended
St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb ...
, and was close friends with fellow-Cambridge student
Eric Maschwitz Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE (10 June 1901 – 27 October 1969), sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, editor, broadcaster and broadcasting executive. Life and work Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, and desc ...
. The two were (with others) both editors on ''The new Cambridge'' chap book between 1920 and 1921.


BBC

He made his name with the
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, starting out as assistant to the Director of Education, before "he went on to introduce the first running commentaries and adapt numerous classics for radio drama... it has been argued that the production of the first television play springs from his ingenuity". He was drama script editor for ten years (1940–50) before retiring "six years later in 1956". He wrote ''The Stuff of Radio'' (1934), and his radio dramatisation of
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' first (chronologically)
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title ''
The Magician's Nephew ''The Magician's Nephew'' is a fantasy children's novel by C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head. It is the sixth published of seven novels in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' (1950–1956). In recent editions, which sequence the books ...
'' was approved by Lewis personally.Harry Heuser's ''Broadcastellan: ...keeping up with the out-of-date'' Blog: "Many Happy Reruns: Lance Sieveking, 'The Man with the Flower in His Mouth'", 19 March 2007
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In 1927, he designed "an eight-squared drawing meant to assist BBC radio's football commentators," (as well as listeners at home, who could get a copy of the same chart in the ''Radio Times''. His 1928 experimental work ''The Kaleidoscope'' was partly recreated in 2022 by the London Bubble Young Theatre Makers and broadcast on
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as part of a documentary about him. Another early BBC radio drama producer,
Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and Television presenter, broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newe ...
, said of the "not altogether fortunate" Sieveking: :"He was perhaps over much influenced during his most impressionable years by
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, and by the theory of that master of paradox that because some things were better looked at inside out or upside down such a viewpoint should invariably be adopted. Talented and imaginative beyond the ordinary, his eyes gazing towards distant horizons, he was liable to neglect what lay immediately before his feet." Harry Heuser interprets Gielgud's words in the following way: :"Sieveking was an audio-visionary, a trier of
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techniques at whom actors and colleagues would "gaze with a certain dumb bewilderment" as he "exhorted them to play 'in a deep-green mood,' or spoke with fluent enthusiasm of 'playing the dramatic-control panel, as one plays an organ." There was not much use for such a one in radio. As Gielgud put it, even British radio broadcasting, "provided him with no laboratory in which experiments could be carried out." " In 1930, while radio drama was still relatively new, Sieveking found in the still-newer medium of television a place in which he could experiment with new ideas. To that end, (in collaboration with Gielgud) he brought an adaptation of
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's short play ''L'uomo dal fiore in bocca'' (1923) to television as ''"The Man with the Flower in His Mouth"'', airing on 14 July 1930 – the first British television play. Very little of Sieveking's work survives in whole or in part (aside from some scripts – see below), but in 1967, ''"The Man.."'' was re-made, "authentically re-produced and presented by the original producer, Lance Sieveking, supported by the original art-work (by C R Nevinson) and music recording".


Papers

His papers (and those of his ancestors, dating from 1724 to 1971) are housed in the
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, Indiana University, and consist of "correspondence, radio plays, manuscripts for short stories, for novels, and for nonfiction works, diaries, drawings, and photographs" as well as "many photographs from the World War I period showing airplanes, North Africa and from Lance's captivity as a German prisoner-of-war."Lilly Library Manuscript Collections: World War I-era Collections
Accessed 6 March 2008


Bibliography and filmography


Television

* "Face of the Law" (writer) for ''Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents'' AKA ''Rheingold Theatre'' (Season 3, episode 5; 1954) * "The Third Clue" (writer) (1934) **Written by Frank Atkinson and
Michael Barringer Michael Barringer was a British writer, screenwriter and playwright. He also occasionally served as film director, directing four films early in his career. His play ''Inquest'' was the first performed at the Windmill Theatre when it opened in 193 ...
from the novel ''"The Shakespeare Murders"'' by Neil Gordon. Starring:
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Molly Lamont Molly Lamont (22 May 1910 – 7 July 2001) was a South African-British film actress. Life and career Lamont was born in Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa. After winning a beauty contest in South Africa she was offered a contract by Britis ...
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Raymond Lovell Raymond Lovell (13 April 1900 – 1 October 1953) was a Canadian-born actor who performed in British films. He mainly played supporting roles, often somewhat pompous characters. Lovell initially trained as a physician at Cambridge University ...
, et al. * "The Man with a Flower in His Mouth" (producer) (14 July 1930) **Directed by
Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and Television presenter, broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newe ...
; written by
Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power ...
from his ''L'uomo dal fiore in bocca''. Starring the uncredited Earl Grey, Lionel Millard & Gladys Young.


Radio PlaysDiversity Website – Lance Sieveking Radio Plays
Accessed 9 March 2008


Saturday Night Theatre
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(22.04.44) **"Robert's Wife", ( St. John G. Ervine/Lance Sieveking) with
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Barry Morse Herbert Morse (10 June 19182 February 2008), known professionally as Barry Morse, was a British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio, best known for his roles in the ABC television series '' The Fugitive'' and the British sci-fi drama '' ...
(22.07.44) **"Thunder In The Air", ( Robina Millar/Lance Sieveking) with
Ivan Samson Ivan Samson (28 August 1894 – 1 May 1963) was a British stage, film and television actor. Samson appeared regularly in West End plays and from 1920 began appearing in British silent films. He played Viscount de Mornay in '' I Will Repay'' ...
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", ( C.S. Forester/Lance Sieveking) with
Ivor Barnard Ivor Barnard (13 June 1887 – 30 June 1953) was an English stage, radio and film actor. He was an original member of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where he was a notable Shylock and Caliban. He was the original Water Rat in the first L ...
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Louise Hampton Louise Hampton (23 December 1879 – 10 February 1954) was a British actress. Although her career began when she was a child, it was for "the pathos and dignity of her elderly, motherly roles""Obituary: Louise Hampton", ''The Stage'', 18 Februar ...
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Valentine Dyall Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor. He worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series '' Appointment with Fear'' ...
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Marjorie Westbury Marjorie Westbury (18 June 1905 – 16 December 1989) was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted for more than fifty years. Born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, she studied Voice at the Royal College of Music in London between 1927 a ...
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Hermione Baddeley Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".Folkart, Burt, "Noted ...
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Leslie Perrins Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains. After training at RADA, he was on stage from 1922, and in his long career, appeared in well over 60 films. Hobbies Perrins and wife Violet w ...
(17.09.49) **"Silence In Heaven", (Lance Sieveking) with
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(2 February 1957) **"A Private Volcano", (Lance Sieveking) with
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in their "Showcase" series, on 16 October 1954.)'' *"
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, (broadcast in 7 episodes of 40min between 25 May 1962 – 6.7.62; also re-edited to 180min) *" Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde", (
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Books

**"Dressing Gowns & Glue" (1919) with John Nash and Paul Nash **"Gladstone Bags & Marmalade" (1920) **"The Thought Machine" (no date) **"The Cud. Being the Experimental Poems of..." (1922) **"North American Binocular" (No date) **"The Woman She Was" (1934) **"Silence in Heaven" (1936) **"Eye of the Beholder" (1957) **''Airborne : scenes from the life of Lance Sieveking; pilot, writer & broadcasting pioneer'', ed. and ann. by Paul Sieveking. With an Introduction by David Hendy, London : Strange Attractor Press, 2013,


References


External links


Sieveking's papers are held in the Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
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