1. Recordings in which Winnicott himself speaks

All the recordings listed below are publicly available to listen to here on the Collected Works website

 

BBC Recordings

Anne Karpf: An Introduction to Winnicott’s Broadcasts

A recorded introduction to Winnicott’s recordings for the BBC based on a longer article by Anne Karpf, “Constructing and Addressing the ‘Ordinary Devoted Mother’: Donald Winnicott’s BBC broadcasts, 1943-62”, published in History Workshop Journal, vol. 78, Autumn 2014, pages 82-106.

The Ordinary Devoted Mother and Her Baby. List of recordings

1. A Man Looks at Motherhood

2. Getting to Know Your Baby

3. The Baby as a Going Concern

4. A Note on Infant Feeding

5. Where the Food Goes

6. The End of the Digestive Process

7. The Baby as a Person

8. Mother Feeding the Baby

9. Why Do Babies Cry?

10. The World in Small Doses

11. The Innate Morality of the Baby

12. On Weaning

13. Knowing and Learning

14. Instincts and Normal Difficulties

The Ordinary Devoted Mother and Her Children, Parents and Children, BBC, 1960–62

BBC Network Three, January–April 1960. (E. Brewer & I. Benzie, Producers)

1. Some Mothers Discuss when to Say No I

2. Some Mothers Discuss when to Say No II

3. Some Mothers Discuss when to Say No III

4. Jealousy I

5. Jealousy II

6. Jealousy III

7. Jealousy IV

8. What Irks the Ordinary Mother?

9. More that Irks—and Why

10. Too much security? Parents and Children.

11. The First Five Years.

Non-BBC Audio Material

1. The Price of Ignoring Psychoanalytic Research Findings

National Association for Mental Health Annual Conference: ‘The Price of Mental Health’. The Assembly Hall, Church House, Westminster, 25 February 1965.

2. Contribution to the Discussion on ‘Frankie’

24th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Asssociation. Amsterdam, 1965. [Spoken Comments on Obsessional Neurosis and ‘Frankie’

3. Changing Patterns in Young People

a. Answering questions from the floor

b. Further contributions to a discussion

21st Annual Meeting of the British Student Health Association: ‘Higher Education and Modern Concepts in Adolescent and Early Adult Development’. Newcastle upon Tyne, 18 July 1968.
[Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development and their Implications for Higher Education]

4. The Pill: An Informal Presentation

The Progressive League, November 1969

5. Commentary on Play Therapy, Virginia Axline

Undated ca. 1969