Wolverhampton Art Exhibition. Opening speech. Circa early 1960.

The conditioning of the modern writer. Lecture for the East London Fabian Society. 21st March 1960.

AJA (Anglo-Jewish Association) lecture. Hand corrected typed copy.

Change For The Angel. Review of Bernard Kops’ play for ENCORE theatre magazine. March 1960.

Question and Answer. Interview with Jill Pomerance for New Theatre Magazine. April issue.

Plymouth address. Lecture delivered to unnamed organisation. 2 June.

A Crucial Question. Review of novel ‘The Crossing Point’ by Gerda Charles. Printed The Jewish Quarterly, Autumn issue.

The Modern Playwright or ‘O, Mother is it worth it’. A lecture. Early in the year A.W. was invited by the Oxford University Drama Festival to address them on the relationship of Labour movement to the arts. The talk was printed as a pamphlet in April by the university magazine Gemini. The pamphlet was sent to every trade union General Secretary, about 160 in all inviting them to comment. This and a follow up pamphlet outlining what the trade unions could do lead directly to The Association of Cinema and Television Technicians placing a resolution before the 1960 Trades Union Congress calling for an enquiry into the state of the arts. The resolution was number 42 on the agenda. Inspired by this resolution a group of artists with AW at their head formed CENTRE 42.

Vision! Vision! Mr Woodcock! About what could happen in the arts if the Trades Unions supported it. George Woodcock was Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress. Printed in the New Statesman 30 July.

Radio conversation. Extract from ‘Ten O’clock’ that took place on the Home Service of BBC. AW, John Osborne, and Sheila Delaney confront critic, Cyril Connolly, to discuss ‘Connolly’s Second Law’, that literary success often leads to literary failure because it takes the writer out of the environment which first inspired him to write. 23 September.

Roger Planchon’s Theatre. About Planchon’s theatre in Lyons and his production of ‘The Three Musketeers’ which he brought to the Edinburgh Festival. Printed in the New Statesman 3 September.

Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility. Lecture for a three-day conference organised by National Union of Teachers. 26 to 28 October.

Telephone conversation between Sir Arnold Wesker, Minister of Housing, and Lord John Osborne. Commissioned by PUNCH, printed around October/November.

A Shifting Morality. Thoughts on the Lady Chatterley trial printed in the Daily Express as ‘We live in a Jekyll and Hyde society’ 5 November.

Discovery. Thoughts on writing after The Trilogy. Transatlantic Review, December.

The Book In My Hand. A poem. Printed in ‘Overland’ (Australia). No. 18.

My Child & The First Child, two poems printed in ‘Overland’, Australian Quarterly. No. 19. December. ‘O, Mother, is it worth it’ printed in same issue.

Art is not enough. A ‘statement’ resulting from a conversation with Tom Milne. Printed in Twentieth Century, February issue devoted to Theatre.

The First Child. A poem. Printed in ‘the sixties’ (spring 1961), a poetry magazine edited by Maureen Duffy of which only three editions appeared: ‘spring 1960’, ‘autumn 1960’, ‘spring 1961’.
Also printed in the first edition of the ‘Sunday Citizen’. Circa ’61.

Resolution 42. An article for The Statesman. 29 March.

A Cultural Revolution. Article for Reynold’s News. May.
Note: this was the article which moved the Wellingborough Trade’s Council to invite Centre FortyTwo to mount the first festival.

The beginnings of Resolution 42. For the BBC Home Service. 27 May.

The Kitchen. Radio interview with David Robinson for the BBC Home Service. 8th September.

I Walk The Streets Of Norwich. Poem published in German newspaper called ‘konkret’ 20 October.

Centre 42. An article for the Sunday Times. Circa 1962.

Time Parts The Memory. Poem printed in ‘Caravan’, a Jewish Quarterly Omnibus published by Thomas Yoseloff, New York.

Leisure for Living: Requested by Labour Party Research Department anxious to ‘review it’s policy for the arts, sport and recreation’.

Art: therapy or experience. Article for The Youth Service magazine. 1st January.

Untitled. Short piece written and printed at request of editor of ‘Peace News’ around 15 May. Observes how difficult it is to resolve the conflict between ‘dull’ virtue and ‘exquisite’ sin in art.

Shakespeare – 400 years. Thirty lines commissioned by the Moscow Literary Gazette, 4 April. Never printed. Ironic irreverence to difficult, I think, for them to accept.

Wanted: A New Code of Human Behaviour. One of a series of statements after the Eichman Trial. Printed The Jewish Quarterly. November.

False Gods. Open letter to Peter Brook’s ‘Aphorisms – False Gods’. Printed in ‘Flourish’, Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club Newspaper. Issue No. 6. Spring.

The Four Seasons. Response to long article ‘Wesker – The Last Season?’ by Jeremy Hawthorne in ‘Mainstream’ October issue 1965. Response printed 5 February.

The House. A lecture for Birmingham University. Encounter. November issue.

Address to Carmel College. Early 1967.

Why does Willis hit below the belt? A reply to article ‘You’re being left behind, Mr. Wesker’ by Lord Willis in Tribune. Willis replied. Printed in ‘Tribune’ around May/June.

Address to seven hundred sixth formers – Eltham Green School. Hand-written manuscript, corrected typed manuscript, and final typed manuscript. 13 July 1967.

Delusions of floral grandeur. Proposed article for ‘flower-power’ for new glossy magazine Envoy which didn’t last beyond a half a dozen or so issues. Hand-written draft and corrected typed top draft. No record of when it was printed. 5 October.

Wesker on Wesker. A self-portrait offered to The New Statesman, rejected by Paul Johnson who doubted that ‘its publication would enhance your reputation’. 14 May.

The Four Seasons. Paragraphs for Figaro on the occasion of production of the play at the Gaieté Montparnasse, Paris. Hand-written draft only. August 1968.