What a heart-breaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection. When you take the field for authors you will be safer without a breastplate than a backplate. They will not combine against the crook publisher and the sweating editor, but they will combine against you with the fervour of crusaders.
(G. B. SHAW )
Derek Parker tells the story of the Society of Authors which, this year, celebrates the centenary of its foundation.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
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