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Post by Morgan on Nov 27, 2022 9:52:02 GMT
I've just spent a very interesting hour listening to this little bit of war time history. Priestley's postscripts. Martin Wainwright marks the life of a broadcasting phenomenon - the story of how Yorkshire man JB Priestley became the voice of the nation during the darkest days of the Second World War. Using original broadcasts, information stored in BBC files and interviews with his son Tom Priestley and step son Nicolas Hawkes, Martin revisits these extraordinary broadcasts and asks why, in spite of their astonishing popularity, Priestley was taken off air? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00sf0tg
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Post by Steve on Nov 27, 2022 11:40:48 GMT
I've read that he was too left wing for Churchill and the Tories in his cabinet Anyone that's seen his excellent 'An Inspector Calls' would know he was very anti the upper class and the Tory party of the 1940s probably wanted him locked up
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Post by Morgan on Nov 27, 2022 14:36:08 GMT
I've read that he was too left wing for Churchill and the Tories in his cabinet Anyone that's seen his excellent 'An Inspector Calls' would know he was very anti the upper class and the Tory party of the 1940s probably wanted him locked up I've only ever read one of his books and that was 'The Good Companions.' A friend gave me it to me when I was about 15. The descriptions in the first chapter had me hooked and I've re-read the book several times since. It's still in the bookcase beside me.
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Post by Steve on Nov 27, 2022 23:40:52 GMT
I've read that he was too left wing for Churchill and the Tories in his cabinet Anyone that's seen his excellent 'An Inspector Calls' would know he was very anti the upper class and the Tory party of the 1940s probably wanted him locked up I've only ever read one of his books and that was 'The Good Companions.' A friend gave me it to me when I was about 15. The descriptions in the first chapter had me hooked and I've re-read the book several times since. It's still in the bookcase beside me. I'll look out for it An Inspector Calls is brilliant theatre, it makes it's point very well but ultimately it's a brutal tale.
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