Haley’s Comet
Paul Driver, 6 February 1997
The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Weidenfeld, 431 pp., £25, September 1996,0 297 81720 5 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Weidenfeld, 431 pp., £25, September 1996,
“... Isaiah Berlin, Tippett, Betjeman and Fred Hoyle became familiar voices. Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas made a poet’s living in what Thomas called ‘the thin puce belfries’ of the Third. Guided by the producer Douglas Cleverdon, Under Milk Wood and Beckett’s All That Fall came into being; and drama thrived – the ... ”