Week by week the Third Programme will let listeners hear again the best talks of past years. This evening you can hear one of the most distinguished of all
Sir Max Beerbohm on 'London Revisited' first broadcast on December 29, 1935

All that 'Max' said about London in 1935 is as interesting, entertaining, and valid as ever. But since then, from 1940 to 1945, London has been the target for more than wit, and this creates between 'Max' and his listeners a tension that was absent eleven years ago. It is as though a powerful, silent answer were returned to him by the ugly stones and girders of his firm distaste; 'in the quiet magic of the dawn.' more than the inaesthetic bulk of Regent Street has seemed especially nasty.'