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John Betjeman 1906 - 1984

People Today
24 December 1959 Home Service
John Betjeman talks to Irene Slade about

	his terror at Marlborough 3 min 17
	life at Oxford, hearties and aesthetes, being sent down 1 min 45

Sound Archive
25 December 1971 Radio 3
John Betjeman talks to Alan Pryce Jones about

	WH Auden at Oxford, the sort of man he was, his influence 0 min 55
	churchgoing, the aesthetic experience more important than dogma, Anglicanism and Catholicism 2 min 21

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	John Betjeman English poet, journalist and architectural critic Poet Laureate in 1972 John Betjeman's popular verse celebrated architecture, but concentrated mainly on middle-class social life in the metropolitan suburbs and Home Counties. Read more