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Glyn Maxwell

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Free Thinking: Britten and Radio.

Britten and Radio.

01/11/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Britten and Radio.

BBC Historian David Hendy and others discuss Britten and radio at Aldeburgh.

BBC historian David Hendy, poet Glyn Maxwell, biographer Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker of the Britten-Pears Foundation explore Britten's relationship with radio and television.

David Hendy, Glyn Maxwell, Kate Kennedy and Lucy Walker with Philip Dodd and an audience at Aldeburgh in a discussion exploring Britten's relationship with radio in Britain and in America, with his subjects as varied as mountaineering (with words from Christopher Isherwood), a dramatisation of Homer's Odyssey and short stories by D.H. Lawrence (with a young W.H. Auden). But why was Britten so reluctant to accept a job at the BBC's Music department in the 1930s? 

David Hendy is a historian of the BBC and Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex.
Glyn Maxwell is a poet and librettist who has traced the journey of Auden and MacNeice to Iceland.
Kate Kennedy is a biographer and editor of the forthcoming 'Literary Britten', 
Lucy Walker is Director of Programmes and Learning at the Britten-Pears Foundation. 

Recorded in front of an audience as part of the Britten on the Radio weekend at the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings.

Producer: Fiona McLean.

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