The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the Third Programme and Radio Three - Brossura

Carpenter, Humphrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753802503 ISBN 13: 9780753802502

Casa editrice: W&N, 1997

Riassunto

the BBC Third Programme, which first went on air on 29th September 1946, became one of the leading cultural and intellectual forces in Britain. Written with unlimited access to the BBC's archives and letters of such notable figures as Bertrand Russel, Harold Nicholson and Dylan Thomas, and including exerpts from outstanding talks, documentaries and drama, this book charts the history of this very Briish institution.

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L'autore:

Humphrey Carpenter was born in 1946. After Oxford, he worked for the BBC, and then became a freelance writer. He has written numerous prize-winning biographies as well as a highly successful children's book series. He is a regular book reviewer for the Sunday Times, and was the director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1994-6.

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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0753802503
• ISBN 13: 9780753802502
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448