Trains and Buttered Toast. Selected Radio Talks

Hardback. First Edition. Trains and Buttered Toast. Price clipped to D/J. Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. he saw his country being devastated by war and progress, and he waged a private battle to save it. His only weapons were words - the pietry for which he is best known and even more influential, the radio talks that first made him a ohenomenon. From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman's talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the sould of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now collected in book form for the first time, his broadcasts represent one of the most compelling archives of twentieth-century broadcasting, evoking for the modern reader Betjeman's unique perspective and the compelling magic of the golden age of wireless. 353 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …