This unique collection brings together a series of BBC Radio talks John Betjeman gave towards the end of his life. Previously unpublished, and brought together for the first time by the editor of the bestselling Trains and Buttered Toast, Stephen Gam...
For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places -- from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whe...