Carpenter, Humphrey

THE ENVY OF THE WORLD: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 1946-1996.

Pp. xiv+4329last blank), 16 plates, bibliography, notes on sources, index, errata slip tipped in on copyright page; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, verso lightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1996. First edition. *'With unlimited access to BBC archives, Humphrey Carpenter throws fresh light on Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman and Michael Tippett, among others, and brings alive the individuals who have created the programmes and delivered the arts to the nation over the last fifty years.' [wrapper blurb]. Item #171672

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