Includes correspondence from Alan Plater to Walter Martin relating to Martin's poetry submissions to 'Northern Drift' (1965); letter from Alan Plater to Mrs Martin relating to Walter Martin's death (1970); and typed drafts entitled 'Anthology No. 1' and 'Anthology No. 2' of prose and poetry works broadcast in 'Northern Drift'. Note that Alan Plater edited the radio programme 'Northern Drift'.

Works in ‘Anthology No. 1’:

‘Get a Plank’ prose by Mike Haywood, originally broadcast in Northern Drift (ND) Ed. 19 (11 Dec 1965)

‘A Lad on Tyneside’ by Leonard Barras, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 10 (28 Mar 1965)

‘Prudence Dowd’ poem by Barry Hines, originally broadcast in ‘The Sunday Collection’ (27 Aug 1967)

‘Billy Peak’ prose by Barry Hines, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 13 (27 Jun 1965)

‘They May Never Pass This Way Again’ poem by Jack Sharratt, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 7 (27 Dec 1964)

‘Georgina’ poem by Jack Sharratt, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 13 (27 Jun 1965)

‘Fenners’ poem by Jack Sharratt, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 15 (29 Aug 1965)

‘A Russian Norfolk’ poem by Jack Sharratt, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 14 (27 Jul 1965)

‘The Human Element’ by Stan Barstow, from ‘The Desperadoes and Other Stories’

‘From a Manhattan Tomb’ by Ogden Nash, from ‘Many Long Years Ago’

‘Little Aubrey’ by Alex Glasgow

‘My Daddy is a Left Wing Intellectual’ song written and sung by Alex Glasgow, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 2 (22 Mar 1964)

‘In the Night There is a Garden’ song by Alex Glasgow

‘The Sacred Nit’ by Henry Livings, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 1 (31 Jul 1964)

Works in ‘Anthology No. 2’:

‘On a Saturday Afternoon’ prose by Mike Haywood, first broadcast in ND Ed. 6 (29 Nov 1964)

‘Two Women’ by Mike Haywood, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 16 (26 Sep 1965)

‘Orpheus Underground’ by Len Rush, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 15 (29 Aug 1965)

‘My Mother Says’ by Norman Smithson, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 1 (26 Jan 1964)

‘He’s Happy Enough’ prose by Norman Smithson, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 13 (27 Jun 1965)

‘Buttons’ by Brian Thompson, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 7 (27 Dec 1964)

‘The Thin Seam’ by Sid Chaplin

‘Again the Antilles’ by Jean Rhys

‘Letter to Warner Brothers’ by Groucho Marx, from The Groucho Letters

‘Treadmill’ prose by Denise Robertson, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 23 (24 Apr 1966)

‘Names’ by Alan Plater

‘The Price of Coal’ song written and sung by Alex Glasgow, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 36 (24 Sep 1967)

‘A Wild Utopian Dream’ song written and sung by Alex Glasgow

‘As soon as this pub closes’ by Alex Glasgow, originally broadcast in ND Ed. 18 (28 Nov 1965)

‘The Mary Baker City Mix’ song written and sung by Alex Glasgow

‘But the Doctor Doesn’t Come’ by Alex Glasgow

‘Evening Post Song’ by Alex Glasgow