The first of two programmes taken from the letters of Horace Walpole selected by TERENCE COOPER
Introduced bv
DAVID Lloyd James
Read by Carleton Hobbs
I walked as a rag of quaUty, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it
Horace Walpole (1717-1796) was the son of the great Whig Prime Minister and he invented the neo-Gothic slyle with the building of Strawberry Hill. He was also a great wit and his letters provide a running commentary on the absurdities of the ' age of reason.'