to my pleasure there were also a few pages in these vintage years of radio on louis macneice's period of employment at the bbc:

snagge/barsley on macneice: "louis was one of the quietest and best-mannered of a rowdy bunch of writers and producers, and since he was irish this seemed indeed a remarkable thing."

macneice on his being awarded a cbe for services to poetry while being employed at the bbc:

"'i went around for days feeling i'd almost done something wrong,' he remarked. "