'Betjeman' by A N Wilson

An enjoyable biography. It was interesting to find out about Betjeman's influence on the early days of television programming at the BBC. Sadly, a lot of his advice went unappreciated, and at one point he threatened to withdraw his pioneering services as a writer and frontman on documentaries about archictecture as he was barely being paid enough to cover his expenses. He was actually being paid a far higher fee for his appearances on rather frivolous quiz shows and the like. It does seem to be taking the corporation a long time to get things right.