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2. 1932 to 1937: Literature and Love
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Marriage, the Essex countryside and TS Eliot: more life and times of the much-loved wordsmith. Read by Michael Williams.
Marriage, the Essex countryside and TS Eliot: more life and times of the much-loved wordsmith.
A selection from the first volume of John Betjeman's letters.
From lively university days, an initial shaky start to his career, to love, literature, architecture, religion and the war.
Written between 1932 and 1937: letters of Literature and Love
Read by Michael Williams.
Abridged by Andrew Simpson.
Producer: Marion Nancarrow.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1995.
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