Works of John Betjeman

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Betjeman in 1961

Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, although left without graduating.[1] He turned down a position in the family furniture business,[2] and instead took a series of jobs before becoming the assistant editor of The Architectural Review in 1931, which reflected a deeply held affection for buildings and their history. That same year he published his first book, Mount Zion, a collection of poems.[3][4][a]

In 1932 Betjeman began a career in broadcasting, with a radio programme about the proposed destruction of Waterloo Bridge; he continued with regular radio work for the rest of his life, appearing in a wide range of genres, from panel and game shows, interviews, news interviews, documentaries and poetry readings.[5] He published his first non-verse book in 1933, Ghastly Good Taste, which was subtitled "a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture"; it reflected his concern of the destruction of Victorian and Edwardian architecture to make way for "grimmer contemporary developments, shopping arcades, and bogus Tudor bars".[1] In 1937—shortly after the BBC began regular screen broadcasts—he appeared in his first television programme, How to Make a Guidebook,[6] and went on to appear in a wide range of programmes until his death. His television appearances increased from the 1950s, and his output was prolific.[7]

In 1960 Betjeman was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), which was followed in 1968 with his election as a Companion of Literature. In 1969 he was knighted and, in 1972, he succeeded Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's Poet Laureate.[7][8] In the later years of his life, Betjeman suffered from Parkinson's disease, and he died in May 1984. His obituarist in The Times thought him "a true original", and considered that he was "whimsical, imprudent, shrewd, humorous, disarming, always something of an enfant terrible".[9] The poet Philip Larkin wrote that Betjeman "was not only the best loved poet, but one of the best loved men of our time",[10] while his biographer, the academic John Clarke, described him as a "unique figure in twentieth-century English poetry, enjoying a degree of fame and success unequalled by any poet since Byron".[11]

Verse[edit]

Betjeman's poetry
Title[12][13][14] Year of first publication First edition publisher
(London, unless otherwise stated) 		Notes Ref.
Mount Zion 1931 James Press [15]
Continual Dew, a Little Book of Bourgeois Verse 1937 John Murray [16]
Sir John Piers 1938 Westmeath Examiner, Mullingar, Ireland Published under the pseudonym Epsilon [17]
Old Lights for New Chancels, verses topographical and amatory 1940 John Murray [18]
New Bats in Old Belfries 1945 John Murray [19]
Slick but not Streamlined 1947 Doubleday, Garden City N.Y. Introduction by W. H. Auden [20]
Selected Poems 1948 John Murray preface by John Sparrow [21]
St. Katherine's Church, Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire 1950 Privately printed, Chiselhampton Subtitled Verses Turned in Aid of a Public Subscription towards the Restoration of the Church of St. Katherine, Chiselhampton [22]
A Few Late Chrysanthemums 1954 John Murray [23]
Poems in the Porch 1954 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [24]
Collected Poems 1958 John Murray Compiled and with an introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. This consisted of a selection of Betjeman's poems, rather than a collection of all his work;[25] there have been numerous reprints, some of which have provided additional works for inclusion.[3][b] [27]
John Betjeman 1958 John Murray Selected poems [28]
Lament for Moira McCavendish c. 1958–59 Browne Lismore Undated, but c. 1958–59; booklet, limited to 20 copies [29]
Summoned by Bells 1960 John Murray [30]
A Ring of Bells 1962 John Murray [31]
High and Low 1966 John Murray [32]
Six Betjeman Songs 1967 Duckworth [33]
A Wembley Lad and The Crem 1971 Poem of the Month Club [34]
A Nip in the Air 1974 John Murray [35]
Betjeman in Miniature: selected poems of Sir John Betjeman 1976 Gleniffer Press, Paisley [36]
The Best of Betjeman 1978 John Murray Selected by John Guest [37]
Five Betjeman Songs 1980 Joseph Weinberger [38]
Ode on the Marriage of HRH Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer 1980 Warren Editions Limited to 125 copies [39]
Church Poems 1981 John Murray [40]
Uncollected Poems 1982 John Murray [41]
Betjeman's Cornwall 1984 John Murray [42]
Ah Middlesex 1984 Warren Editions Limited to 250 copies [43]
Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems (ed. Kevin J. Gardner) 2019 Bloomsbury Continuum PDF ebook [44]

Radio[edit]

Betjeman was broadcast in numerous radio performances, although no full record exists. Most were on British radio, although he also made recordings for American radio.

Radio broadcasts of Betjeman
Broadcast Date Channel Notes Ref.
"Waterloo Bridge is Falling Down" 17 February 1932 BBC National Programme [45]
"Conversations in the Train: On the 9.20" 30 April 1932 BBC National Programme [46]
"All Male Novelty Variety" 1 December 1932 BBC National Programme [47]
"One Hour of Modern Variety" 23 January 1933 BBC National Programme [48]
"Variety" 10 February 1933 BBC London Programme [48]
"One Hour of Variety" 29 March 1933 BBC London Programme [48]
"Wanted—A Free Hand" 20 February 1934 BBC Regional Programme [48]
Crowded Moments 2 May 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
"West Country Calendar: May Games or Matter for a May Morning" 18 May 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
Crowded Moments 24 June 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
Crowded Moments 22 August 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
"The Clifton Suspension Bridge" 27 August 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
"Extremes Meet: Build or Rebuild?" 20 December 1936 BBC Regional Programme [48]
"After Dinner" 26 February 1937 BBC Regional Programme [48]
Town Tours 12 April – 24 June 1937 BBC West of England Programme Six episodes [49]
"What is Wrong with the Cinema" 4 September 1937 BBC National Programme [50]
Eccentrics: "Adolphus Cooke Esq of Cookesborough" 24 September 1937 BBC Regional Programme The producer of the programme was Guy Burgess [51]
Seaview: "Visitors" 22 April 1938 BBC West of England Programme [52]
Seaview: "A Horrible Holiday" 6 May 1938 BBC West of England Programme [50]
Seaview: "Where are you Going" 11 May 1938 BBC West of England Programme [53]
"How to Look at a Church" 31 August 1938 BBC West of England Programme [54]
"Up to London" 2 January 1939 BBC West of England Programme [55]
Western Worthies: "The Parson Hawker of Morwenstow" 7 February 1939 BBC West of England Programme [56]
Built to Last 17 April – 27 June 1939 BBC Regional Programme Six episodes [57]
"How to Look at Books" 15 August 1939 BBC Regional Programme [57]
"Sir Henry Newbolt" 4 January 1940 BBC Home Service [58]
"Back to the Railway Carriage" 10 March 1940 BBC Home Service [59]
"Some Comments in Wartime" 4 July 1940 BBC Home Service [60]
"More Comments in Wartime" 12 August 1940 BBC Home Service [61]
"War Commentary" 21 November 1940 BBC Home Service [61]
"Coming Home, or England Revisited" 25 February 1943 BBC Home Service [62]
"How to Look at a Town" 6 July 1943 BBC Home Service [61]
"Second Hand Books" 4 November 1943 BBC Home Service [61]
"Personal Choice" 29 December 1943 BBC Regional Programme [57]
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" 29 May 1944 BBC Home Service Betjeman read excerpts of Oscar Wilde's work [61]
"The World Goes By" 5 August 1944 BBC Home Service [61]
Book Talk: "Yesterday's Fiction" 21 August 1944 BBC Home Service [63]
Book Talk: "Wartime Tastes in Reading" 4 September 1944 BBC Home Service [64]
"Domestic Interior" 14 September 1944 BBC Home Service [65]
Book Talk 18 September 1944 BBC Home Service [66]
Country Magazine: "Padstow and St Merryn, Cornwall" 19 November 1944 BBC Home Service [66]
Arts: "Looking at Things" 25 May 1945 BBC Home Service [66]
"Hawker of Morwenstone" 25 May 1945 BBC Home Service [66]
Western Men: "Sabine Baring-Gould" 21 September 1945 BBC West of England Home Service [67]
"Tennyson as a Humourist" 26 April 1946 BBC Home Service [66]
Literature in the West: "Augustus Toplady" 23 June 1946 BBC West of England Home Service [68]
West-Country Short Story: "Move with the Times" 11 September 1946 BBC Home Service [66]
Living Writers: "Evelyn Waugh" 14 December 1946 BBC Third Programme [66]
"Seeking Whom He May Devour" 27 December 1946 BBC Home Service [69]
"Time for Verse" 26 January 1947 BBC Home Service [70]
"Aberdeen Granite" 28 July 1947 BBC Third Programme [70]
"The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" 20 December 1947 BBC Third Programme [70]
"Christmas Nostalgia" 25 December 1947 BBC Home Service [71]
New Books and Old Books 12 June 1948 BBC Light Programme [70]
Three in Hand: "St Protus and St Hyacinth, Blisland, Cornwall" 21 July 1948 BBC West of England Home Service [72]
Three in Hand: "St John the Baptist, Mildenhall, Wiltshire" 28 July 1948 BBC West of England Home Service [73]
Three in Hand: "St Mark's, Swindon, Wiltshire" 4 August 1948 BBC West of England Home Service [74]
New Books and Old Books 30 October 1948 BBC Light Programme [70]
Buildings and Places: "Padstow" 6 February 1949 BBC Third Programme [75]
"Letcombe Bassett: The Future of a Village" 19 February 1949 BBC Light Programme [76]
The West in England's Story: "Victorian Provincial Life" 24 May 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [77]
Coast and Country 3 June – 27 September 1949 BBC West of England Home Service Series one; nine episodes [78]
It Begins at Home: "St Petroc" 11 July 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [79]
"The Isle of Man" 7 August 1949 BBC Third Programme [80]
"Poetry Reading" 20 August 1949 BBC Third Programme Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry [81]
"Poetry Reading" 6 October 1949 BBC Third Programme Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry [81]
"Country Mixture" 28 October 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [82]
"It Begins at Home" 13 November 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [82]
The Critics 4 December 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [82]
The Critics 11 December 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [82]
The Critics 18 December 1949 BBC West of England Home Service [82]
"Two Thoughts in a Landscape" 16 April 1950 BBC Third Programme [82]
"A Hundred Years of Architecture in Wessex" 17 April 1950 BBC West of England Home Service [83]
"Love in the Valley" 21 April 1950 BBC Third Programme [84]
"For Your Book List" 5 May 1950 BBC West of England Home Service [84]
"The Future of the Town" 26 May 1950 BBC Third Programme [84]
Coast and Country 9 June – 29 September 1950 BBC West of England Home Service Series two; five episodes [84]
"Tennyson as a Humorist" 7 July 1950 BBC Third Programme [85]
"Childhood Days" 16 July 1950 BBC Home Service [84]
"Théophile-Jules-Henri Marzials" 24 December 1950 BBC Third Programme [86]
"South Kentish Town" 9 January 1951 BBC Home Service [84]
The Week's Good Cause 4 February 1951 BBC Home Service An appeal for the restoration fund of St Mary's Church, Mildenhall [87]
"Poetic Licence" 7 March 1951 BBC Home Service [87]
For Your Book List: "William Barnes" 20 March 1951 BBC West of England Home Service [88]
Let's Go 3 May – 20 September 1951 BBC Light Programme Betjeman broadcast in seven episodes of the programme [87]
"Festival in London" 7 May 1951 BBC Home Service [87]
"Here is our Home" 10 May 1951 BBC West of England Home Service [87]
Coast and County 18 May – 23 August 1951 BBC West of England Home Service Series three; five episodes [87]
The Faith in the West 10 July 1951 – 22 December 1957 BBC Home Service Betjeman broadcast in 30 episodes of the programme [87]
"Some Thought on Christmas Parties" 26 December 1951 BBC Home Service [87]
Three in Hand: "Kelmscott Manor" 4 May 1952 BBC Home Service [89]
"New Soundings" 14 May 1952 BBC Third Programme [90]
Three in Hand: "Cardiff Castle" 18 May 1952 BBC Home Service [91]
"Pugin: A Great Victorian Architect" 15 September 1952 BBC Midland and West of England Home Service To mark the centenary of Augustus Pugin [92]
Woman's Hour 24 September 1952 BBC Light Programme [90]
Evening Service 28 September 1952 BBC Home Service [90]
"The Fifty One Society" 21 March 1953 BBC North of England Home Service [93]
"Trains of Thought" 8 May 1953 BBC Home Service [93]
"Tercentenary of Staunton Harold Church" 27 September 1953 BBC Midlands Home Service [93]
"Changes of Morals" 15 June 1954 BBC Home Service [93]
"Town Forum" 17 June 1954 BBC Midlands Home Service [94]
Desert Island Discs 8 October 1954 BBC Radio 4 [95]
"Personal Call" 11 October 1954 BBC London Calling Asia [94]
Foreigners 20 February – 13 December 1955 BBC Home Service Series of three programmes [94]
"Frankly Speaking" 26 June – 27 December 1955 BBC Home Service Betjeman broadcast in four episodes of the programme [96]
"A Christmas Wreath of Prose and Poetry, Woven by John Betjeman" 25 December 1955 BBC Home Service [97]
"Café Royal: A Study in Conversation" 28 December 1955 BBC Home Service [97]
"A Young Person's Forum on Books" 31 January 1956 BBC Home Service [97]
"Using Your Eyes" 20 June 1956 BBC Home Service [98]
Woman's Hour 27 July 1956 BBC Light Programme [98]
"Talking of Films" 12 August 1956 BBC Home Service [98]
"A Young Person's Forum on Books" 28 August 1956 BBC Home Service [98]
The Week's Good Cause 2 September 1956 BBC Midlands Home Service [98]
"Past Summers at the Seaside" 3 October 1956 BBC West of England Programme [98]
The Week's Good Cause 7 October 1956 BBC Midlands Home Service [98]
"Conversation Piece" 2 December 1956 BBC Home Service [98]
"Town and Country" 29 May 1957 BBC Home Service [98]
"The Younger Generation" 21 October 1957 BBC Network Three [99]
"Personal Choice" 20 February 1958 BBC Home Service [100]
"Tread Softly..." 16 March 1958 BBC Home Service [100]
John Betjeman: Poet, Connoisseur and Churchwarden 31 October – 14 November 1958 BBC General Overseas Service Series of three programmes [100]
"Poetry Reading" 26 December 1958 BBC Third Programme Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry [81]
Woman's Hour 12 March 1959 BBC Light Programme [100]
The Week's Good Cause 3 May 1959 BBC Midlands Home Service [100]
Today 12 May 1959 BBC Home Service [100]
"The Island-Going Naturalist" 21 June 1959 BBC Home Service [100]
"Monday Night at Home" 29 June 1959 BBC Home Service [100]
"Glasgow: The Wondrous City" 6 September 1959 BBC Home Service [100]
In Town Tonight 3 October 1959 BBC Home Service [101]
"People Today" 24 December 1959 BBC Home Service [101]
"The Poetry of the Place" 10 February 1960 BBC General Overseas Service [101]
"The Enjoyment of Reading" 10 April 1960 BBC General Overseas Service [101]
"Life and Letters" 9 September 1960 BBC General Overseas Service [101]
Summoned by Bells 22 November – 28 November 1960 BBC Third Programme Series one; three programmes [101]
"On Railways in the South" 12 February 1961 BBC Network Three [101]
"The Eye-Witness" 11 March 1961 BBC Home Service [101]
"The Eye-Witness" 30 September 1961 BBC Home Service [101]
"Portrait of Martin Wilson" 11 March 1962 BBC West of England Home Service [101]
"Some Aspects of British Snobbery" 18 April 1962 BBC Home Service [102]
"Royal Academy of the Arts: Annual Dinner" 1 May 1962 BBC Home Service [102]
"I Remember" 5 June 1962 BBC Home Service [102]
"Far and Wide" 7 June 1962 BBC South and West Home Service [102]
"Let's Find Out" 10 August 1962 BBC Light Programme [102]
The Week's Good Cause 4 November 1962 BBC Home Service [102]
Woman's Hour 11 December 1962 BBC Light Programme [102]
In Town Tonight 29 December 1962 BBC Home Service [102]
"For Your Bookshelf" 11 February 1963 BBC Home Service [102]
"Famous London Churches" 16 February 1963 BBC General Overseas Service [102]
"Horizons" 21 March 1963 West of England Home Service [102]
The Week's Good Cause 7 April 1963 BBC Home Service [102]
"Turning Points" 7 June 1963 BBC Home Service [102]
"New Comment" 4 July 1963 BBC Third Programme [102]
"Hugh Gaitskell: A Radio Portrait" 16 January 1964 BBC Home Service [102]
"John Betjeman" 15 June 1964 BBC Home Service Betjeman introduced the programme, which consisted of his poetry set to music [102]
The Week's Good Cause 6 September 1964 BBC Home Service [102]
"Frankly Speaking" 23 October 1964 BBC Home Service [102]
"Conservatories and Other Edwardiana: An Exercise in Nostalgia" 27 December 1964 BBC Third Programme [102]
The News 5 January 1965 BBC Home Service Betjeman offered an appreciation on T. S. Eliot [103]
"Holiday Books" 21 July 1965 BBC Home Service [103]
"Time and the River" 19 August 1965 BBC Home Service [103]
"T.E. Brown" 2 October 1965 BBC Third Programme An appreciation of T.E. Brown [103]
Britain's Cathedrals and Their Music 19 November 1965 – 1 April 1966 BBC Radio 3 Series of 19 programmes [104]
"For Ever England 27 December 1965 BBC Third Programme [103]
The Week's Good Cause 15 May 1966 BBC Home Service [105]
The Week's Good Cause 4 September 1966 BBC Home Service [105]
"Louise MacNeice" 7 September 1966 BBC Home Service [105]
"The World of Books" 1 November 1966 BBC Home Service [105]
"Evelyn Waugh" 9 August 1967 BBC Third Programme [105]
Choirs and the Places Where They Sing 20 August – 29 October 1967 BBC Radio 3 Series of nine programmes [106]
Scenes That Are Brightest 16 June 1968 – 23 March 1969 BBC Radio 4 Series of four programmes [107]
"Betjeman's Dickens" 9 June 1970 BBC Radio 4 [107]
"Options" 19 July 1970 BBC Radio 4 [107]
"Tennyson: Portrait of a Poet" 12 February 1970 BBC Radio 4 [107]
"A Choice of Paperback" 4 August 1971 BBC Radio 4 [108]
"Sir John Betjeman and Alan Pryce-Jones" 25 December 1971 BBC Radio 3 [109]
"Sir Maurice Bowra" 7 April 1972 BBC Radio 3 [109]
Poetry Prom 20 June 1972 – 25 August 1976 BBC Radio 4 Betjeman appeared in nine episodes [110]
"The Week's Good Cause" 2 July 1972 BBC Radio 4 [109]
"Now Read On" 5 July 1972 BBC Radio 4 [109]
"Portrait in a Place: William Morris" 6 August 1972 BBC Radio 4 [109]
"Larkin at Fifty" 9 August 1972 BBC Radio 3 [109]
"The Incomparable Max" 27 August 1972 BBC Radio 3 [109]
"Tennyson Eighty Years On" 8 December 1972 BBC Radio 3 [109]
"Victorian Knights" 12 August 1973 BBC Radio 3 [109]
"A Portrait of Lord Berners" 15 December 1973 BBC Radio 3 [111]
"Forty Years On" 29 December 1973 BBC Radio 4 [111]
"Heroes From the Halls" 7 January 1974 BBC Radio 4 [111]
"Can't Put it Down" 20 February 1974 BBC Radio 4 [111]
"Sir John Betjeman" 23 December 1974 BBC Radio 4 [111]
Desert Island Discs 12 April 1975 BBC Radio 4 [112]
Sweet Songs of Zion 6 July – 14 September 1975 BBC Radio 4 Series one; six episodes [113]
Sir John Betjeman: Earlier and Later Loves 12 November – 17 December 1975 BBC Radio 4 Series of six programmes [114]
"The Young Idea" 1 May 1976 BBC Radio 3 [111]
The Week's Good Cause 20 June 1974 BBC Radio 4 [111]
Sweet Songs of Zion 18 July – 12 September 1976 BBC Radio 4 Series two; 11 episodes [115][116]
Kaleidoscope 17 August 1976 BBC Radio 4 [117]
"Betjeman at 70" 28 August 1976 BBC Radio 3 [117]
"Betjemania" 26 December 1976 BBC Radio 4 [117]
"Hymns Ancient and Modern" 12 June 1977 BBC Radio 4 [117]
"Hymns Ancient and Modern" 19 June 1977 BBC Radio 4 [117]
Kaleidoscope 23 June 1977 BBC Radio 4 [117]
Sweet Songs of Zion 2 August – 6 September 1978 BBC Radio 4 Series three; six episodes [118]
Kaleidoscope 7 December 1978 BBC Radio 4 [119]
Summoned by Bells 9 April 1979 BBC Radio 3 [119]
Summoned by Bells 19 April 1979 BBC Radio 3 [119]
"Books, Plays, Poems: Set Poets" 2 May 1979 BBC Radio 4 [119]
Woman's Hour 15 June 1979 BBC Radio 4 [119]
"With Great Pleasure" 22 December 1979 BBC Radio 4 [119]
Bookshelf: "The Poems of John Betjeman" 28 December 1980 BBC Radio 4 Included an interview with Betjeman [119]

Books[edit]

Non-fiction work by Betjeman
Title[13][14][120] Year of first
publication 		First edition publisher
(London, unless otherwise stated) 		Notes Ref.
Ghastly Good Taste 1933 Chapman & Hall [121]
Devon 1936 Architectural Press Part of the Shell Guides series [122]
An Oxford University Chest 1938 John Miles includes photographs by László Moholy-Nagy and illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and Edward Bradley [123]
A Handbook on Paint 1939 The Silicate Paint Co Co-author with Hugh Casson [124]
Antiquarian Prejudice 1939 Hogarth Press [125]
Vintage London 1942 William Collins, Sons [126]
English Cities and Small Towns 1943 William Collins, Sons [127]
John Piper 1944 Penguin Books [128]
Five Sermons by Laymen 1946 St Matthew's Church, Northampton Co-authored with C. S. Lewis and others [129]
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide 1948 John Murray Co-authored with John Piper [130]
Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide 1949 John Murray Co-authored with John Piper [131]
Studies in the History of Swindon 1950 Swindon Borough Council, Swindon Co-authored with L. V. Grinsell, H. B. Wells and H. S. Tallamy [132]
Shropshire – with maps and illustrations 1951 Faber & Faber Part of the Shell Guides series [133]
The English Scene 1951 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [134]
First and Last Loves 1952 John Murray [135]
Gala Day London 1953 Harvill Secker [136]
The English Town in the Last Hundred Years 1956 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge The Rede Lecture [137]
Some Immortal Hours 1957 John Murray Twenty copies [38]
Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, including the Isle of Man 1958 William Collins, Sons [138]
Ground Plan to City Skyline 1960 Newman Neame Published under the name "Richard M Farren" [26]
Clifton College Buildings 1962 Vista Books [139]
English Churches 1964 Vista Books Co-authored with Basil Clarke [140]
The City of London Churches 1965 Pitkin Pictorials One of Pitkin Pride of Britain series [141]
Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches 1968 Collins Publishers Two volumes [142]
Victorian and Edwardian London From Old Photographs 1969 Batsford Books [143]
Ten Wren Churches 1970 Editions Elector Limited edition of 100 copies [124]
Victorian and Edwardian Brighton From Old Photographs 1971 Batsford Books Co-authored with J.S. Gray [144]
A Pictorial History of English Architecture 1972 John Murray [145]
London's Historic Railway Stations 1972 John Murray [146]
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford From Old Photographs 1972 Batsford Books Co-authored with David Vaisey [147]
West Country Churches 1973 Society of Sts Peter & Paul [148]
A Plea for Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street 1974 Church Literature Association [149]
Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall From Old Photographs 1974 Batsford Books Co-authored with A. L. Rowse [150]
Archie and the Strict Baptists 1977 John Murray [151]
Metro-land 1977 Warren Editions [152]
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume One 1994 Methuen Publishing Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green [153]
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume Two 1995 Methuen Publishing Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green [154]
John Betjeman Coming Home 1997 Methuen Publishing [155]
Trains and Buttered Toast: Betjeman's best BBC radio talks 2006 John Murray Edited and introduced by Stephen Games [156]
Tennis Whites and Teacakes: An anthology of Betjeman's prose, verse and occasional writing 2007 John Murray Edited and introduced by Stephen Games [157]
Sweet Songs of Zion: Betjeman's radio programmes about English hymn-writing 2007 Hodder & Stoughton Edited and introduced by Stephen Games [158]
Betjeman's England: Betjeman's best topographical television programmes 2009 John Murray Edited and introduced by Stephen Games [159]

Editor[edit]

Betjeman's statue at St Pancras railway station

Betjeman undertook the role of editor for several magazines and journals, including the undergraduate magazines of Oxford Outlook and Cherwell; the following consists of the books he edited.[160]

Works which Betjeman edited
Title[14] Year of first
publication 		Author First edition publisher
(London, unless otherwise stated) 		Notes Ref.
Cornwall Illustrated 1934 – Architectural Press Part of the Shell Guides series [161]
English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700–1860 1944 Various Frederick Muller Ltd with Geoffrey Taylor [162]
Watergate Children's Classics 1947 Various Watergate Classics [163]
English Love Poems 1957 Various Faber and Faber with Geoffrey Taylor; also a contributor [164]
An American's Guide to English Parish Churches, Including the Isle of Man 1958 – McDowell, Obolensky, New York [165]
Altar and Pew: Church of England Verses 1959 Various E Hulton & Co [166]
A Hundred Sonnets 1960 Charles Tennyson Turner Rupert Hart-Davis Also wrote introduction [167]
A Wealth of Poetry 1963 Various Blackwell Publishing, Oxford with Winnifred Hindley [168]
Selected Poems 1978 John Masefield Heinemann [169]

Television[edit]

Television appearances of Betjeman
Programme[170][171][172] Date Channel Role Notes Ref.
How to Make a Guidebook 21 September 1937 BBC Presenter [173]
Tactile Bee 20 December 1938 BBC Participant [174]
Longleat 20 June 1949 BBC – As a consultant only [174]
Readers and Writers 5 June 1951 BBC Co-presenter [174]
Conversation Piece 2 March 1954 BBC Presenter [174]
Where on Earth? 8 July 1954 BBC Traveller [175]
Music From the Castle 17 October 1954 BBC Commentator [174]
Christian Forum 21 November 1954 BBC Participant [174]
Wells Cathedral 1 April 1955 BBC Presenter [174]
Panorama 25 April 1955 BBC Participant [174]
St Paul's Cathedral 29 May 1955 BBC Narrator [176]
Panorama 29 May 1955 BBC Participant [176]
Discovering Britain 23 September 1955 – 30 March 1956 ITV Presenter Series of 17 short films, on behalf of Shell Oil; also writer [177]
Panorama 5 December 1955 BBC Participant [178]
Robert Adam: Architect to an Age of Elegance 31 January 1956 BBC Presenter [176]
Church in Action 27 August 1956 BBC Presenter [179]
The Englishman's Home 9 July – 5 September 1957 BBC Presenter Series of six programmes [179]
Tonight 16 September 1957 BBC Interviewee [179]
Youth Wants to Know 3 December 1957 ITV Participant [179]
Press Conference 17 January 1958 BBC Participant [179]
About Religion 19 January 1958 ITV Participant [179]
Press Conference 14 March 1958 BBC Participant [179]
Meeting Point 8 June 1958 – 29 August 1965 BBC Participant Betjeman appeared in nine episodes of the programme [180]
Panorama 30 June 1958 BBC Participant [181]
Tonight 8 December 1958 BBC Interviewee [181]
About Religion 8 December 1958 ITV Participant [181]
Mainly for Women: Wednesday Magazine 18 February 1959 BBC Participant [181]
Monitor: John Betjeman, A Poet in London 1 March 1959 BBC Participant [182][183]
Tonight 6 March 1959 BBC Participant [181]
The Royal Scottish Academy 6 July 1959 BBC Participant [181]
Beauty in Trust 4 August 1959 BBC Narrator Also writer [184][185]
Viewpoint 9 September 1959 BBC Participant [181]
Viewpoint 4 November 1959 BBC Participant [181]
Journey into a Lost World 1960 BBC Narrator Also writer [186]
Remembering Summer 19 January 1960 BBC Participant [181]
Monitor 28 February 1960 BBC Participant [187]
A Journey into the Weald 26 June 1960 BBC Narrator [188]
John Betjeman as the Book Man 11 September 1960 – 8 January 1961 ITV Presenter Series of nine programmes [189]
About Religion 18 September 1960 ITV Participant [189]
Wednesday Magazine 30 November 1960 – 6 December 1961 BBC Participant Betjeman made four appearances in the series [190]
John Betjeman and the Book Man 8 January 1961 ITV Presenter [189]
John Betjeman Goes by Train 17 April 1961 BBC Presenter [191]
Enjoying Life 1962 BBC Presenter Produced by the Labour Party [192]
Steam and Stained Glass 2 April – 16 April 1962 ITV Presenter Series of three programmes [193]
Perspective on Eccentricity 31 May 1962 BBC Presenter [193]
In View: Men of Steam 26 September 1962 BBC Presenter Also writer [193]
Perspective 17 January 1963 BBC Participant [193]
Sing a Song of Sixpence 22 January – 19 February 1963 ITV Presenter Series of three programmes [193]
Let's Imagine a Branch Line Railway 29 March 1963 BBC Presenter [194]
The Muse in SW1 17 July 1963 BBC Participant [193]
Seeing and Believing: In Populous City Pent 6 October 1963 BBC Reader [193]
One Man's County 22 January 1964 BBC Presenter [195]
Something About in Diss 25 March 1964 BBC Narrator [196]
High Mass 26 July 1964 BBC Participant [195]
Writer's World 5 October 1964 BBC Participant [195]
Monitor 15 December 1964 BBC Presenter [197]
Panorama 21 December 1964 BBC Participant [195]
Christmas Carols 24 December 1964 BBC Presenter [195]
Swann, Wallace and Betjeman 25 December 1964 BBC Participant [195]
Monitor 29 December 1964 BBC Participant [195]
A Thousand Years From Milton—from Milton Abbey 3 March 1965 BBC Presenter [198]
Muses with Milligan 3 March 1965 BBC Participant [195]
Pity About the Abbey 29 July 1965 BBC Co-writer Play, co-written with Stewart Farrar [195]
BBC 3 29 January 1966 BBC Guest [199]
Late Show London 18 February 1966 Interviewee [200]
A Man With a View 19 April 1966 BBC Presenter [199]
Footprints 15 May 1966 BBC Narrator Also writer (in verse) [199]
Late Night Line-Up 31 July 1966 BBC Interviewee [199]
Betjeman at Random 1 August – 22 August 1966 ITV Interviewer Series of four programmes [201]
Pride of Place 1 August 1966 – 20 August 1967 BBC Participant Series of nine programmes [202]
The Frost Programme 2 December 1966 ITV Interviewee [203]
The Founder: The Story of Lancing College 9 December 1966 BBC Presenter [203]
Journey to Bethlehem 26 December 1966 BBC Presenter [204]
Betjeman's London 14 August – 18 September 1967 BBC Presenter Series of six programmes [205]
The Picture Theatre 10 October 1967 BBC Presenter [206]
The Frost Programme 6 December 1967 ITV Interviewee [206]
A Tale of Canterbury 25 December 1967 BBC Narrator Also written by Betjeman [207]
Contrasts 31 January 1968 BBC Presenter [206]
Aida 5 February 1968 BBC Presenter [206]
Omnibus 2 April 1968 BBC Participant [206]
Summer '67 8 April 1968 BBC Narrator [206]
The Morning Service 26 May 1968 ITV Participant [206]
A Portrait of Hardy 27 August 1968 ITV Participant [206]
Release: The Weekly Arts Magazine 26 October 1968 BBC Participant [206]
Viewpoint 14 November 1968 BBC Participant [206]
Frost on Saturday 30 November 1968 ITV Interviewee [208]
Contrasts 17 December 1968 BBC Presenter Also writer [206]
Bird's-Eye View: The Englishman's Home 5 April 1969 – 18 April 1971 BBC Presenter Series of 13 programmes [209][210]
A Cathedral for Cornwell 10 April 1969 BBC Narrator [209]
Four with Betjeman 29 June – 20 July 1970 BBC Presenter Series of four programmes [209]
Late Night Line-Up 26 October 1970 BBC Presenter [211]
Look Stranger: Ellan Vannin 10 December 1970 BBC Presenter [212]
An Evening with John Betjeman 24 December 1970 BBC Presenter [213]
Aquarius 26 December 1970 ITV Presenter [213]
That Well-Known Store in Knightsbridge 1 June 1971 BBC Presenter [214]
On Camera: Historic Houses 13 July 1971 BBC Participant [213]
Summer Review 13 August 1971 BBC Presenter [213]
Omnibus: "Happy Birthday, Dear Albert" 12 September 1971 BBC Presenter [213]
Treasures of the British Museum 24 November 1971 ITV Presenter [213]
Railways Forever 1 June 1972 BBC Presenter [215][216]
Collector's World 15 August 1972 BBC Participant [217]
Betjeman in Australia 13 September – 4 October 1972 BBC Presenter Series of four programmes [217]
Thank God it's Sunday 10 & 17 December 1972 BBC Narrator [217][218]
Parkinson 17 February 1973 BBC Interviewee [217]
Metro-Land 26 February 1973 BBC Presenter Also writer [219]
Up Sunday 27 May 1973 BBC Participant [220]
A Chance to Meet 16 September 1973 BBC Guest [220]
Nationwide 19 March 1974 BBC Interviewee [220]
Aquarius 26 May 1974 ITV Participant [220]
A Passion for Churches 7 December 1974 BBC Narrator Also writer [221]
Sir John Betjeman 15 June 1975 BBC Presenter Five-minute appeal on behalf of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast [222]
The Book Programme 30 September 1975 BBC Presenter [223]
Just a Nimmo 28 January 1976 BBC Interviewee [224]
Vicar of the Parish 29 July 1976 BBC Narrator Also writer [222]
Summoned by Bells 29 August 1976 BBC Presenter Also writer [222]
Betjeman's Belfast 12 November 1976 BBC Presenter [222]
The Enthusiast 22 December 1976 BBC Presenter [222]
Anyone for Tennyson? 16 March 1977 Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Presenter [222]
Betjeman and Friends 12 & 19 April 1977 ITV Presenter [225][226]
The Queen's Realm: A Prospect of England 31 May 1977 BBC Presenter Also writer [227]
Parkinson 5 November 1977 BBC Interviewee [228]
The Bold Red Baronet 6 January 1978 BBC Participant [229]
Read All About It 2 April 1978 BBC Interviewee [228]
John Betjeman's Dublin 30 November 1978 BBC Presenter Also writer [230]
The Innes Book of Records 17 January & 21 February 1979 BBC Participant [231][232]
Tonight in Town 1 June 1979 BBC Participant [228]
Arena: "Private Life of the Ford Cortina" 19 January 1982 BBC Participant [233]
Time with Betjeman 13 February – 27 March 1983 BBC Participant Series of seven programmes [234]
The Architect of Civic Pride 4 May 1984 BBC Participant [235]

Discography[edit]

Betjeman reads William Norton's petition to Save Lewisham Town Hall, 1961
LP recordings by Betjeman
Album[236] Year Label Notes
The Golden Treasury of John Betjeman 1956 Argo Records
The Story of Jesus 1960 London Talking Book Co
Betjeman Reads Betjeman 1961 Argo Records
Banana Blush 1974 Virgin Records With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Late Flowering Love 1974 Virgin Records With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales 1975 Pye Records Betjeman and Dame Edith Evans reading the stories
Elizabeth II: The Woman and the Queen 1977 Argo Records
The World of John Betjeman 1977 Argo Records
Sir John Betjeman's Britain 1977 Virgin Records With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Varsity Rag 1981 Virgin Records With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker

Notes and references[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Although some sources put the date he joined The Architectural Review as 1931,[3][4] others put the date as 1930.[1]
  2. ^ These reprints include in 1958, 1959 (when it was enlarged), 1962 (when it was enlarged again), 1970, 1971 and 1980.[26][14]

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  3. ^ a b c Clarke 1983, p. 59.
  4. ^ a b Robinson 1998, pp. 6–7.
  5. ^ Peterson 2006, pp. 329–30.
  6. ^ Peterson 2006, p. 359.
  7. ^ a b Brooke, Michael. "Betjeman, Sir John (1906–1984)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  8. ^ Wilson 2006, p. 294.
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  10. ^ Marks, Laurence; Davenport, Hugo (20 May 1984). "Betjeman the people's poet dies". The Observer. p. 1.
  11. ^ Clarke 1983, p. 58.
  12. ^ Robinson 1998, pp. 16–17.
  13. ^ a b Clarke 1983, pp. 57–58.
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  123. ^ "An Oxford University Chest ... Comprising a description of the present state of the town and University of Oxford". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  128. ^ "John Piper. [With reproductions and a portrait.]". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  129. ^ "Five sermons by laymen / C. S. Lewis, John Betjeman". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  139. ^ "Clifton College Buildings. [By John Betjeman.]". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  140. ^ "Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: in 2 vols". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  141. ^ "The City of London Churches". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  143. ^ "Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs; introduction and commentaries by John Betjeman". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  145. ^ "A Pictorial History of English Architecture". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  151. ^ "Archie and the Strict Baptists". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  155. ^ "John Betjeman Coming Home". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  156. ^ "Trains and Buttered Toast". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  162. ^ "English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape, 1700 – c.1860 / chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor ; with original lithographs by John Piper". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  163. ^ "Watergate Children's Classics. Edited by J. Betjeman". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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  167. ^ "A Hundred Sonnets ... Selected and with an introduction by John Betjeman and Sir Charles Tennyson". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  168. ^ "A Wealth of Poetry. Selected for the young in heart by W. Hindley with the assistance of John Betjeman". British Library Catalogue. London: British Library. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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Sources[edit]

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