V.C. Clinton-Baddeley

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (1900 – 1970) was a British playwright, actor, and writer. Clinton-Baddley also founded Jupiter Recordings Ltd, a company that produced spoken word and poetry set to music, in 1958. The recordings were made either by the poets themselves, or by actors and scholars.^[1] Jupiter Recordings featured recordings of works by Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, and Philip Larkin.^[2] Jupiter Records ceased functioning in 1970.^[1]

Published works

Plays

• The Billiard-Room Mystery; or, Who D'you Think Did It: A Murder Mystery in Two Acts^[3]
• Aladdin^[4]
• The Babes in the Wood: A Cynical Pantomime in One Act
• Dick Whittington, or, Love is the Key that Opens Every Door^[5]
• Sleeping Beauty^[6]
• The What D'ye Call it: An Opera^[7] (music by Phyllis Tate)^[8]

Books

• Devon^[9]
• Words for Music^[10]
• The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre after 1660^[11]
• All Right on the Night^[12]
• Some Pantomime Pedigrees^[13]
• Death's Bright Dart^[14]
• My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree^[15]
• Only a Matter of Time^[16]
• No Case for the Police^[17]
• To Study a Long Silence^[18]