Autographs: Pat Osborne, BBC producer's Autographed Visitor’s Book, 1940s-50s, signed by Walt Disney, Gene Kelly, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Roy Plumley, Roy Rogers and Trigger, David Niven, Kenneth Horne, and many other guests on the BBC radio programmes, ‘Desert Island Discs’, ‘Housewives’ Choice’, Star Round Up Xmas, 1951, and Film Time at the Festival -a ruled and indexed A-Z address book with soft burgundy covers, 8vo. 17 x 23cm, containing 65+ signatures, many dated between 1943 to1953, ink ownership in the producer’s hand to front endpaper, ‘Pat Osborne Gramophone Department, B.B.C. 5.10.43’, and her further manuscript half-title reads, ‘Distinguished Visitors’. The autographs, a few with sketches, are mostly signed on a single page, inscribed with personal messages dedicated ‘to Pat’, and further annotated in Pat Osborne’s hand to note the title of programme, date, and guest’s name in brackets, to include -Frederick Allen, 15.10.43; Brenda Bruce; Phyllis Calvert, 1948; Petula Clark; Michael Dennison; Robert Donat and Walt Disney (together on the reverse of page ‘D’ with Micheal Dennison and others on reverse).‘Film Time at the Festival’, eight signatures including, Marjorie Fielding and José Ferrer; Stewart Granger.Guy Gibson 14.2. 44, signed to top of page ‘G’ with other signatures below, further written in Pat Osborne’s hand ‘(Wing Commander V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. (Desert Island Discs)’ , and Dulcie Gray’s signature on reverse).Bob Danvers-Walker, the voice of Pathe News, an autographed eleven-line poem titled ‘Housewives Choice first programme Mon March 4th, 1946’.Margaret Lockwood; Len Hutton; David Jacobs, Sept 1949; Gene Kelly; Jean Kent; Alan Ladd, 1952; Glad Mills (pianist, Mrs Mills); John MacVane (NBC radio correspondent) 22/1/44, ‘The man who didn’t like Mickey Rooney’; John McCullum; David Niven; David Nixon (Housewives Choice); Eric Portman.Roy Plumley, who is best known for creating the radio programme ‘Desert Island Discs’ in November 1941. His dedication to Pat Osborne reads, ‘To Pat, The face behind the centre room window at where from we tremble. With love from the desert island story, Roy Plumley, Oct. 5th, 1943’.Derek Roy; Cecile Chevreau; Ralph Reader (Sqd. Leader Ralph Reader MBE) known for staging the original Gang Show; Roy Rogers and Trigger; Eleanor Smith, Oct. 5th, 1943; Jean Simmons; Christopher Stone, 1950; Valerie Hobson; Thora Hird; Janette Scott; Michael Storm, ‘To my producer from “The Hack’, with an ink sketch; Kieran Moore, and Googie Withers; together with, Kenneth Horne, loosely inserted Typed Letter Signed, a single-page on printed headed paper, dated January 22, 1965, sent form his London address to Miss Pat Osborne, B.B.C. London W.1., ‘many thanks for putting up with me for the last week . . . I hope you enjoyed the programme, notwithstanding the perilous journeys that you had to make from distant parts . . . all the best, Kenneth’.a five-page typescript transcript of an interview given by Pat Osborne, titled,‘These Radio Times, Pat Osborne Section, ‘Housewives’ Choice, etc’, dated 1955, with blue ink annotations throughout in Miss Osborne’s hand. A fascinating insight into Pat Osborne’s contribution as a young pioneering producer for the BBC, and her creation of ‘Housewives’ Choice’, which first aired on the morning of March 4, 1946, for which Pat chose a title, signature tune, and comperes; together with, five related newspaper cuttings; and seven black and white BBC publicity photographs, depicted Pat Osborne with colleagues and guests, including Michael Storm and Alan Ladd, annotated in ink on reverse ‘Television World, Film Time’, many stamped on reverse, various sizes, the largest, 10 x 8 inches. (14).Guy Gibson was the first Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron, which he led in the ‘Dam Busters’ raid in May 1943, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Gibson later commented as a castaway on ‘Desert Island Discs’ that his eighth choice of record, Wagner’s, ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’, reminded him of a bombing raid. Seven months after recording the programme, Guy Gibson aged twenty-six, was killed when the Mosquito he was piloting crashed at Steenbergen in the Netherlands on September 19, 1944. Provenance:Pat Osborne started working for the BBC as a typist at the age of 18 in 1936 until she left the company in the mid-1970s. Pat began to take over the corporation’s programmes which had lost their male producers to Her Majesty’s Armed Forces and by 1946 she had become a highly professional senior BBC producer in her own right.Miss Osborne started the BBC’s radio programme, ‘Woman’s Hour’ and produced numerous programmes including, ‘Housewives’ Choice’, ‘Radio Rhythm Club’, ‘Desert Island Discs’,‘ March of the Movies’, International Hit Parade’, and ‘The Wonderful World of Disney’ broadcasts on Christmas Day to name a few. Throughout her 40 years with the BBC, Pat Osborne made many friends, many of whom included the best-known names in show business. Some rubbing to spine and some wear to covers and edges of indexed pages, otherwise internally clean and bright with strong signatures.