Czech disasters
I don't know how much longer this will be available: BBC Radio 4's Archive Hour on the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in the autumn of 1938. You can listen again here (this is from last Saturday: 'A Quarrel In A Faraway Country', 22 Sep 2007).
The programme really is, as Martin Hoyle says previewing in the FT, "in magnificent form".
Thirty years later, as she recounts in a recent edition of the FT, Miriam Gross at the Observer received a 'phone call from Wystan (W.H.) Auden “I’ve written a short poem about Czechoslovakia, could you publish it in Sunday’s paper?”
The second line ('Deeds quite impossible for Man') reminds me of Coleridge's 'In caverns measureless to Man'.
The programme really is, as Martin Hoyle says previewing in the FT, "in magnificent form".
Thirty years later, as she recounts in a recent edition of the FT, Miriam Gross at the Observer received a 'phone call from Wystan (W.H.) Auden “I’ve written a short poem about Czechoslovakia, could you publish it in Sunday’s paper?”
The second line ('Deeds quite impossible for Man') reminds me of Coleridge's 'In caverns measureless to Man'.
posted by DavidP at 20:49
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