The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Nationalism: The Melting-Pot Myth. An interview with Bryan Magee.

• Interviews by Bryan Magee
• Recording date: 10/2/92
• First transmission: 19/2/92 BBC Radio 3
• Duration (whole programme): 48 minutes
• Series: What’s the Big Idea? (last of 12)
• Presenter: Bryan Magee
• Producer: Matt Thompson
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (IB’s portion)
• Recording: BLSA Tape B9090 (off-air)
• Publication: online on this site

Desert Island Discs

• Recording date: 25/2/92
• First transmission: 12.15 pm 19/4/92 BBC Radio 4
• Duration: 40 minutes
• Repeat: 9.05 am 24/4/92 BBC Radio 4; 12.15 pm 28/3/93 BBC Radio 4
• Series: Desert Island Discs
• Presenter: Sue Lawley
• Producer: Janet Lee
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (including 7,956 words of out-takes [5,155 words broadcast])
• Recording: BLSA Tape B9197 (off-air); also online

‘Alexander and Salome Halpern’ (in Russian translation), in a Russian collection: Mikhail Parkhomovsky (ed.), Jews in the Culture of Russia Abroad: Collected Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays, vol. 1, 1919–1939 (Jerusalem, 1992: M. Parkhomovsky), 229–41

• repr. in Mikhail Parkhomovsky and Andrey Rogachevsky (eds), Russian Jews in Great Britain: Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays [Russian Jewry Abroad, vol. 2] (Jerusalem, 2000: Mikhail Parkhomovsky)
• original English text published in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)

‘The Early Years’, in Freda Silver Jackson (ed.), Then and Now: A Collection of Recollections (Oxford, 1992: Oxford Jewish Congregation), 15–18

• repr. as ‘Jewish Oxford’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)

‘Reply to Ronald H. McKinney, “Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Sir Isaiah Berlin and John Caputo” [Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (1992), 395–407]’, Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (1992), 557–60

• repr. as ‘Reply to Ronald H. McKinney’ in The Crooked Timber of Humanity (2nd ed., 2013)

Introduction to Founders and Followers: Literary Lectures given on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the London Library (London, 1992: Sinclair-Stevenson), xi–xv

Introduction to programme for concert given to celebrate the inauguration of Israel’s new Supreme Court Building, November 1992, 2 pp.

Letters to Conor Cruise O’Brien in Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke (London, 1992: Sinclair Stevenson), 612–15, 617–18

‘Mixing It’ (letter), Oxford Magazine, Noughth Week, Hilary Term 1992, 8

‘No Trace of Roguery’ (letter), Spectator, 11 January 1992, 22

(unattributed) ‘Professor H. L. A. Hart’ (obituary), The Times, 24 December 1992, 13

Contribution to feature on the literary canon, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 January 1992, 16

Appreciation of David Patterson, Centre Piece [Newsletter of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies] No 10 (November 1992), 2

Comment in Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Prophetic Role and Legacy (Philadelphia, 1992: Trinity Press International), i

Juan Cruz, Babelia (supplement to El Pais) no. 30, 9 May 1992, 13–15

• extract in Corriere della Sera, 19 July 1992, 5

John Lewis Gaddis, John Lewis Gaddis Papers on George F. Kennan, Princeton University, Interview with Isaiah and Aline Berlin, 29 November 1992

Salvador Giner, Claves de razón práctica no. 22 (May 1992), 44–7

Michael Ignatieff, ‘The Late Show’, BBC2 Television, 5 February 1992

• Not published

Sue Lawley, ‘Desert Island Discs’, Radio 4, 19 April 1992

• Not published
• Link to recording

Steven Lukes, ‘Isaiah Berlin: Tra la filosofia e la storia delle idee’ ['Between Philosophy and the History of Ideas'], Iride 8 (January–April 1992), 82–136

• extract in Il Sole 24 Ore, 12 July 1993, 32, with article by Armando Massarenti
• repr. in Isaiah Berlin, Tra la filosofia e la storia delle idee: la società pluralistica e i suoi nemici – intervista autobiografica e filosofica [The Pluralistic Society and Its Enemies – An Autobiographical and Philosophical Interview], ed. Steven Lukes (Florence, 1994: Ponte alle Grazie), together with other material
• extract in La Repubblica, 26 March 1994, Cultura, first page
• part of English original published in Prospect, October 1997, 46–53 (an extract from this version appeared as ‘The Wisest Man in Britain’, Sunday Telegraph, 21 September 1997, Review, 1–2, 4; trans. German)
• whole English original published as ‘Isaiah Berlin in Conversation with Steven Lukes’ in Salmagundi no. 120 (Fall 1998), 52–134
• extract trans. Polish in Przeglad polityczny 54 (2002), 124–32