Second of four programmes
The novelist Anthony Burgess was the 1980 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecturer at the University of Kent. In four lectures recorded at Canterbury earlier this year, he explored the two arts in rivalry and in collaboration.
'Let us be careful when we condemn literary work that seems obscure... it may well be that the author of that work is a musician and cannot write any other way.'
(Curiously Coloured Things: next Mon 7.30)
followed by an interlude