Rise and Fall of Radio Features
Marilyn Butler, 7 August 1980
Louis MacNeice in the BBC
by Barbara Coulton.
Faber, 215 pp., £12.50, May 1980,0 571 11537 3 Show More
by Barbara Coulton.
Faber, 215 pp., £12.50, May 1980,
“... sad but compelling tale of MacNeice’s involvement with the Corporation is excellently told by Barbara Coulton. She makes him a hero of tragic stature, intelligent, personable, convivial, saturnine, and disconcertingly hard to know. Her book is a well-composed portrait which itself owes much technically to the radio feature: it is like a patchwork of ... ”