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Eccentric, sentimental & homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war & progress & he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which he is best known &, even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a phenomenon.
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John Betjeman was born in 1906 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. His gave his first radio talk in 1932; future appearances made him into a national celebrity. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. He died in 1984. Stephen Games was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, made documentaries for BBC Radio 3 and was the first arts correspondent on the Independent. He has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and deputy editor of the RIBA Journal.
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'Stephen Games has made a useful, entertaining selection of Betjeman's radio talks' * Sunday Telegraph * 'In Trains and Buttered Toast Betjeman's voice is gloriously new again' * The Times * 'Informative and entertaining' * Scotsman * 'Excellent' * Spectator * 'Beautifully produced... Betjeman was evidently a comic writer of the highest class' * Guardian * 'What a joy' * Sunday Herald Magazine * 'Games... has produced a volume which no Betjemaniac will be without.' * Evening Standard: A.N. Wilson * 'A real treat ... A lovely, lovely anthology' * Daily Mail, Val Hennessy, Critic's Choice *
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- PublisherHodder Pb
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0719561272
- ISBN 13 9780719561276
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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