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The Sunday Times

1980s

A listing and preview for Kaleidoscope, a conversation with Baldwin, on Radio 4 (3 Feb 1980)

A short piece about Baldwin rewriting Othello (27 Jul 1980)

A preview of televised documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine (22 Feb 1981)

Review of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, a TV documentary in which Baldwin visits the Deep South (1 Mar 1981)

Baldwin’s 58th birthday is marked (1 Aug 1982)

Baldwin referenced anecdotally in an interview with right-wing commentator Paul Johnson (10 Apr 1983)

The Fire Next Time listed in recommended books, as part of a larger piece about children’s reading habits (10 Jul 1983)

Another Country picked by Anthony Burgess in his list of the best modern novels (19 Feb 1984)

Baldwin mentioned in a piece about book covers in the 1950s (2 Dec 1984)

Baldwin mentioned in a review of a Norman Mailer biography (28 Jul 1985)

Baldwin mentioned in an interview with Maya Angelou and Alice Walker about black American women writers (20 Oct 1985)

Peter Ackroyd review of The Price of The Ticket (29 Dec 1985)

Ben Whitaker review of Evidence of Things Not Seen (13 Apr 1986)

Baldwin’s appearance briefly mentioned in a review of TV documentary The Statue of Liberty (13 Jul 1986)

Baldwin mentioned twice in a short interview with Horace Ove (13 Jul 1986)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Irving Howe’s The American Newness (31 Aug 1986)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Caryl Phillips’ The European Tribe (15 Feb 1987)

A baldwin short story is described in a review of The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories 1945-1955 (21 Jun 1987)

Baldwin referenced in a profile of musician Terence Trent D’arby (28 Jun 1987)

Baldwin referenced in a long piece about writer Tom Wolfe (10 Jan 1988)

A notice posted by Baldwin’s biographer, James Campbell, in which he asks for any relevant materials that might help him with his research (24 Apr 1988)

Baldwin referenced in an article on the state of urban black American populations (17 Jul 1988)

Preview of a Radio 3 broadcast of Blues for Mr Charlie (20 Nov 1988)

Preview of a televised broadcast of the James Baldwin Project Live on Sky Arts (5 Mar 1989)

A report on the reopening of the Tricycle Theatre, with mention of a room being named after Baldwin (10 Sep 1989)

Mention of a room being named after Baldwin in a long piece about the reopening of the Tricycle Theatre (17 Sep 1989)