Sir Charles Tennvson talks about his grandfather
Sir Charles spent much of his boyhood in the house of his famous grandfather Alfred Lord Tennyson. These personal memories of the extravagant figure who dominated his youth are an expanded version of the broadcast which Sir Charles made to mark his 90th birthday last year.
(' Tennyson, Portrait of a Poet,' introduced bv Sir John Betjeman. with readers who include John Gielgud , Peggy Ashcroft and Sybil Thorndike , can be heard on 24 July, R4)