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He married Elinor Nest Lewis in 1944; she was a secretary at the BBC, and they provided a social focus for producers and performers. The eldest of their three children is Dame
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with engravings by Gill. He published a succession of very finely printed catalogues of books for sale from the bookshop, ranging from early
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and Roger Fry. The shop specialized in fine printing and first editions from the sixteenth century onward. From there he also published.
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After leaving the BBC, he was involved with a fine publishing imprint, Clover Hill Editions, which he had established with Will Carter.
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radio producer and bookseller. In both fields he was associated with numerous leading cultural figures.
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it had taken seven years to persuade Thomas to write it. At around this time he also worked with
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for Cleverdon, in March 1962. Cleverdon was a friend and near neighbour of the writer
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Cleverdon collected folk songs in the south of England for the BBC in the 1940s.
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He died on 1 October 1987, and is buried with Nest on the eastern side of
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Work
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His first book published was a collection of engravings by
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was produced by Cleverdon in 1966, with music composed by
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BBC – Press Office – Jenny Abramsky Oxford lecture one
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Oxford University Press. 93: 217:He produced programmes for them featuring 22:(17 January 1903 – 1 October 1987) was an 719:People educated at Bristol Grammar School 428:London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977 81: 301:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 110:to make a set of copper engravings for 104:Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon 86:Grave of Douglas and Nest Cleverdon in 676: 545:The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library 520:The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library 495:The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library 288: 282: 16:English radio producer and bookseller 603:'Games for players and spectators', 235:Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices 724:20th-century English businesspeople 618:"BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts" 461:The Official Richard Burton Website 42:. At Oxford he became friends with 13: 14: 735: 380:The MT interview: Julia Cleverdon 356:. 5 January 2004. Archived from 261: 116:. Other books published include 29: 699:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford 640: 610: 597: 583: 570: 558: 533: 508: 483: 472: 113:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 50:. He then set up a bookshop in 622:University of Delaware Library 454: 438: 418: 413:David Jones: Writer and Artist 405: 391: 372: 342: 331: 20:Thomas Douglas James Cleverdon 1: 193:. In 1954 Cleverdon produced 694:Burials at Highgate Cemetery 325:UK public library membership 245:The Man Who Collected Sounds 144:to modern first editions by 68:He was the President of the 7: 10: 740: 466:November 10, 2007, at the 106:. In 1927 he commissioned 378:Davidson, Andrew (2007) " 94:Publishing and Radio work 593:Issue 2224, 25 June 1966 576:Nephie Christodoulides, 275: 253:BBC Radiophonic Workshop 251:with resources from the 714:English radio producers 652:marbl.library.emory.edu 426:With An Independent Air 310:10.1093/ref:odnb/40154 229:and many other poets. 90: 46:, and was taken up by 36:Bristol Grammar School 165:with fellow producer 85: 40:Jesus College, Oxford 607:, 11 June 1966, p. 7 709:English booksellers 704:BBC radio producers 399:"Double Crown Club" 269:The Private Library 267:"Fifty Years"; in: 34:He was educated at 360:on 8 February 2018 189:, for BBC Radio's 140:first editions of 91: 338:Cleverdon Mss. Ii 323:(Subscription or 122:Siegfried Sassoon 88:Highgate Cemetery 77:Highgate Cemetery 70:Double Crown Club 731: 668: 667: 665: 663: 654:. Archived from 644: 638: 637: 635: 633: 628:on 12 April 2007 624:. 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Index

English
Bristol Grammar School
Jesus College, Oxford
John Betjeman
Roger Fry
Bristol
Eric Gill
Julia Cleverdon
Double Crown Club
Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery
Eric Gill
David Jones
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Siegfried Sassoon
T. F. Powys
Caxton Press
Jane Austen
E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
The Brains Trust
Howard Thomas
Laurence Gilliam
Richard Burton
Dylan Thomas
Elizabeth Poston
Third Programme
Under Milk Wood

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