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- A beautiful and practical up-to-date guide to over two thousand of Britain’s best parish churches.
This new edition, in full colour throughout and illustrated with over 350 specially commissioned photographs, covers over 2,500 of the very best churches in England, Scotland and Wales. Fully updated by bestselling author Richard Surman, this is the most complete and up to date guide to Britain’s church heritage. |
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| - a collection of the very best of Betjeman’s contributions to the Telegraph. Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost and an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress’s relentless onward march. | |
| by Kevin J Gardner leads readers through the rollicking and humorous world of Betjeman’s writings to gain a clear, grand picture of the turbulent faith behind one of Britain’s most popular poets. Published in September 2010 | |
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Edited by Stephen Games, is a gazetteer of England, spanning the country's highlights from Humberside to Kent and from Manchester to Cornwall, and is based on Betjeman's best television programmes filmed over a 20-year period. The book contains the commentaries for all 26 of his Shell advertisements in 1955-56, as well as the 12 films he made with Jonathan Stedall for TWW in the early 1960s, his five best films for Eddie Mirzoeff at the BBC, and two films he made about London with Ken Russell. |
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| - a collection of Betjeman's essays on architecture, first published to coincide with an exhibition at the Soane Museum, and a worthwhile volume in its own right. Introduced with a lively tirade against mediocrity entitled 'Love is Dead', Betjeman discusses a range of topics including conservation battles, modern architecture and his passion for railways. | |
| . Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on 'The Faith in the West' program airing on the BBC's West of England Home Service. This series, called 'Poems in the Porch,' was so popular that Betjeman received constant requests to publish the poems. Six were eventually published in a slim volume, but now Kevin Gardner has identified and collected twenty six of these works. Most have never been published before. | |
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Edited by Stephen Games. This book brings together a series of previously unpublished BBC Radio talks John Betjeman gave towards the end of his life. These talks concerning hymns and hymn writers were Betjeman's swan song as a broadcaster. 'Hymns are the poems of the people', Betjeman observed in his first talk, and went on to show how variously this insight has been borne out over generations. |
| Edited by Stephen Games. "Tennis Whites and Teacakes" brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of village teashops, it reveals Betjeman not just as a sentimentalist but as a passionate observer with a wonderful sense of humour and an acute eye. | |
| . The Centenary edition, including for the first time "Summoned By Bells". | |
| edited by Stephen Games . From fervent pleas for provincial preservation to humoresques on eccentric vicars and his own personal demons, Betjeman's radio talks combined wit, nostalgia and criticism in a way that touched the soul of his listeners from the 1930s to the 1950s. Now collected in book form for the first time. | |
| . A Centenary edition of around seventy of the most popular poems, with a foreword by Barry Humphries. | |
| , edited by Jonathan Glancey. Ten letters selected by his daughter, Candida Lycett Green, each describe a journey that he made or that he planned to make or that he planned for a friend or relative. Jonathan Glancey has added his own words to each letter; words that set the scene, bring the letters to life, that describe Betjeman's moods - humorous, mischievous, brisk for business - and above all, remind us of the age of the steam locomotive in Britain and the many stations closed and track miles lost during the sixties and seventies. | |
| , selected by John Guest. A selection of the most popular poems, together with prose, and the TV script for "Metroland". | |
| . A large collection of prose, bringing together a selection of John Betjeman's writings spanning four decades, discussing buildings, townscape and landscape, together with appreciations of writers, artists and architects, ranging from Evelyn Waugh, Pugin and T.S. Eliot, to R.S. Thomas, Etchells and Jacob Epstein. | |
| , by Kevin Gardner. An anthology of about 75 poems on religious themes, with clarifying footnotes and a critical introduction that offers an overview of his life and poetry, as well as a commentary on some of his more difficult poems. | |
| , by Hugo Williams. A selection of poetry, with introductions & critical reactions by contemporary poet, Hugo Williams. |
| . This book is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to Betjeman's private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart. Here too are chronicled his many friendships, ranging from 'Bosie' Douglas to the young satirists of "Private Eye", from the Mitford Sisters to the "Crazy Gang". | |
| , edited by Candida Lycett Green. Covers Betjeman’s life from his university days through to his period on the staff of The Architectural Review, as editor of the Shell Guides in the 1930s, and as Press Attaché in Dublin during the War. With notes and introductions from his daughter, Candida Lycett Green. | |
| , edited by Candida Lycett Green. Covers his life from the age of forty-six, when his popularity as poet and broadcaster and as campaigner against the destruction of fine buildings was reaching its height. | |
| , by Dennis Brown. Brown explores JB's contribution to Britain's self understanding, reveals the continuing relevance of Betjeman's work in an era of ‘contingency, irony, and solidarity’, and shows why Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of our times | |
| , by William S. Peterson. This bibliography lists and describes all of his known writings, including his own books, ephemera, contributions to periodicals and to books by others, lectures, and radio and television programmes. Other categories such as editorships, music settings, and dramatic adaptations of his poems, recordings, and interviews are also included, as well as a section devoted to writings about him. Manuscripts and drafts of all his works are described in detail. This enormous body of material is thoroughly indexed, cross-referenced, and in most cases annotated. | |
| , by Philip Payton. This is a lively new account of Betjeman's life and work and his defining lifelong relationship with Cornwall. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England and doubly so in Cornwall where, as he was the first to admit, he was a 'foreigner'. Yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', discovering his own Welsh ancestry and cultivating an alternative Celtic identity in Cornwall. |
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- Sir John Betjeman narrates three classic BBC films documenting some of England's most historical and picturesque places. Part 1: An Englishman's Home [1969] |
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- Sir John Betjeman narrates three classic films from the BBC archive. Thank God It's Sunday [1972] Summoned By Bells [1976] |
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- Victorian Architects and Architecture - This four part series looks at the men associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival and some of their famous constructions Part 1: Charles Barry & Augustus Pugin |
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| . JB's 1974 BBC documentary, looking at life in the churches around the Diocese of Norwich. | |
| - two hours of clips from Sir John's films on West Country towns (made in the early 1960s), plus interviews with family & friends, explianing the background to the films and their place in his life. Presented by John Nettles. | |
| Sir John's own recording of his verse autobiography, on two CDs. | |
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A 2 CD collection of JB reading his own poetry, from the BBC archives. |
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| . The film version of JB's verse autobiography, made for the BBC in 1976. | |
| . The original BBC journey along the Metropolitan Line, together with a number of short railway-related films. Also includes a 24 page illustrated booklet by director Edward Mirzoeff. | |
| . The first of the recordings of JB reciting his poetry over the music of Jim Parker. Includes "Indoor Games Near Newbury", "A Shropshire Lad" and "A Child Ill" | |
| . More poetry with the music of Jim Parker, including "Hunter Trials", "A Subaltern's Love Song", "Seaside Golf", and "Middlesex". | |
| . Another selection of poetry with music by Jim Parker, including "Narcissus", "The Olympic Girl", and "Myfanwy". | |
| . With music from Jim Parker. Includes "Slough", "Christmas", and "In a Bath teashop". | |
| . Two CDs from the BBC, including archive recordings of JB reading some of his most popular works, as well as readings specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please, from Derek Jacobi, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Susan Jameson and Samuel West . | |
| . A series of films on towns in the West Country, made by JB in the early 60s. Some have had their soundtrack re-recorded by Nigel Hawthorne. 2 VHS videos. |
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"Betjeman's Country" Tea Towel. Royal blue on white, size 20" x 30". £5 each, (plus P&P £1 for 1 towel, £2 for up to 4). From Philippa Davies, 2 The Crescent, St.Stephens, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7AG. (Cheques payable to Philippa Davies). |