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Article: "This rather elusory broadcast technique": T. S. Eliot and the Genre of the Radio Talk.
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- ANQ
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- September 22, 1998
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"Our public is not yet in existence."
--Eliot, "Journalists of Yesterday and Today"
On February 24, 1929, from his Faber & Gwyer office at 24 Russell Square, T. S. Eliot sent a letter to the Adult Education Section of the fledgling British Broadcasting Corporation. He wrote to inquire whether the adult education section would be interested in a series of talks about Tudor prose and enclosed a synopsis. Deputy Director of Programmes Charles A. Siepmann accepted the offer the next day. This association between Eliot and the BBC would endure for the next thirty-five years. Before ill health in 1963 made further work impossible, Eliot went on to make at ...