title: V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
text: # 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. Jupiter Recordings featured recordings of works by Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, and Philip Larkin. Jupiter Records ceased functioning in 1970.
  
  ## Published works
  
  ### Plays
  
  * The Billiard-Room Mystery; or, Who D'you Think Did It: A Murder Mystery in Two Acts
  * Aladdin
  * Dick Whittington, or, Love is the Key that Opens Every Door
  * Sleeping Beauty
  * The What D'ye Call it: An Opera (music by Phyllis Tate)
  
  ### Books
  
  * Devon
  * Words for Music
  * The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre after 1660
  * All Right on the Night
  * Some Pantomime Pedigrees
  * Death's Bright Dart
  * My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree
  * Only a Matter of Time
  * No Case for the Police
  * To Study a Long Silence
  