Works of John Betjeman
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. He turned down a position in the family furniture business, 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.
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. 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". In 1937—shortly after the BBC began regular screen broadcasts—he appeared in his first television programme, How to Make a Guidebook, 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.
In 1960 Betjeman was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 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. 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. The poet Philip Larkin wrote that Betjeman "was not only the best loved poet, but one of the best loved men of our time", 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".
Verse
Radio
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.Broadcast | Date | Channel | Notes | |
BBC National Programme | ||||
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BBC London Programme | ||||
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Town Tours | – 24 June 1937 | BBC West of England Programme | Six episodes | |
BBC National Programme | ||||
Eccentrics: "Adolphus Cooke Esq of Cookesborough" | BBC Regional Programme | The producer of the programme was Guy Burgess | ||
BBC West of England Programme | ||||
BBC West of England Programme | ||||
BBC West of England Programme | ||||
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BBC West of England Programme | ||||
Western Worthies: "The Parson Hawker of Morwenstow" | BBC West of England Programme | |||
Built to Last | – 27 June 1939 | BBC Regional Programme | Six episodes | |
BBC Regional Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
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BBC Regional Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | Betjeman read excerpts of Oscar Wilde's work | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Book Talk: "Yesterday's Fiction" | BBC Home Service | |||
Book Talk: "Wartime Tastes in Reading" | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Book Talk | BBC Home Service | |||
Country Magazine: "Padstow and St Merryn, Cornwall" | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Western Men: "Sabine Baring-Gould" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Literature in the West: "Augustus Toplady" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
West-Country Short Story: "Move with the Times" | BBC Home Service | |||
Living Writers: "Evelyn Waugh" | BBC Third Programme | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
New Books and Old Books | BBC Light Programme | |||
Three in Hand: "St Protus and St Hyacinth, Blisland, Cornwall" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
Three in Hand: "St John the Baptist, Mildenhall, Wiltshire" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
Three in Hand: "St Mark's, Swindon, Wiltshire" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
New Books and Old Books | BBC Light Programme | |||
Buildings and Places: "Padstow" | BBC Third Programme | |||
BBC Light Programme | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
Coast and Country | – 27 September 1949 | BBC West of England Home Service | Series one; nine episodes | |
It Begins at Home: "St Petroc" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Third Programme | Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry | |||
BBC Third Programme | Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry | |||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
Coast and Country | – 29 September 1950 | BBC West of England Home Service | Series two; five episodes | |
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | An appeal for the restoration fund of St Mary's Church, Mildenhall | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
For Your Book List: "William Barnes" | BBC West of England Home Service | |||
Let's Go | – 20 September 1951 | BBC Light Programme | Betjeman broadcast in seven episodes of the programme | |
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
Coast and County | – 23 August 1951 | BBC West of England Home Service | Series three; five episodes | |
– 22 December 1957 | BBC Home Service | Betjeman broadcast in 30 episodes of the programme | ||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Three in Hand: "Kelmscott Manor" | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
Three in Hand: "Cardiff Castle" | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Midland and West of England Home Service | To mark the centenary of Augustus Pugin | |||
Woman's Hour | BBC Light Programme | |||
Evening Service | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC North of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Midlands Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Midlands Home Service | ||||
Desert Island Discs | BBC Radio 4 | |||
BBC London Calling Asia | ||||
Foreigners | – 13 December 1955 | BBC Home Service | Series of three programmes | |
– 27 December 1955 | BBC Home Service | Betjeman broadcast in four episodes of the programme | ||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Woman's Hour | BBC Light Programme | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Midlands Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Programme | ||||
BBC Midlands Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Network Three | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
John Betjeman: Poet, Connoisseur and Churchwarden | – 14 November 1958 | BBC General Overseas Service | Series of three programmes | |
BBC Third Programme | Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry | |||
Woman's Hour | BBC Light Programme | |||
BBC Midlands Home Service | ||||
Today | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
In Town Tonight | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC General Overseas Service | ||||
BBC General Overseas Service | ||||
BBC General Overseas Service | ||||
Summoned by Bells | – 28 November 1960 | BBC Third Programme | Series one; three programmes | |
BBC Network Three | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC South and West Home Service | ||||
BBC Light Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
Woman's Hour | BBC Light Programme | |||
In Town Tonight | BBC Home Service | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC General Overseas Service | ||||
West of England Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | Betjeman introduced the programme, which consisted of his poetry set to music | |||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
The News | BBC Home Service | Betjeman offered an appreciation on T. S. Eliot | ||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | An appreciation of T.E. Brown | |||
Britain's Cathedrals and Their Music | – 1 April 1966 | BBC Radio 3 | Series of 19 programmes | |
BBC Third Programme | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Home Service | ||||
BBC Third Programme | ||||
Choirs and the Places Where They Sing | – 29 October 1967 | BBC Radio 3 | Series of nine programmes | |
Scenes That Are Brightest | – 23 March 1969 | BBC Radio 4 | Series of four programmes | |
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
Poetry Prom | – 25 August 1976 | BBC Radio 4 | Betjeman appeared in nine episodes | |
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
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BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
Desert Island Discs | BBC Radio 4 | |||
Sweet Songs of Zion | – 14 September 1975 | BBC Radio 4 | Series one; six episodes | |
Sir John Betjeman: Earlier and Later Loves | – 17 December 1975 | BBC Radio 4 | Series of six programmes | |
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
Sweet Songs of Zion | – 12 September 1976 | BBC Radio 4 | Series two; 11 episodes | |
Kaleidoscope | BBC Radio 4 | |||
BBC Radio 3 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
Kaleidoscope | BBC Radio 4 | |||
Sweet Songs of Zion | – 6 September 1978 | BBC Radio 4 | Series three; six episodes | |
Kaleidoscope | BBC Radio 4 | |||
Summoned by Bells | BBC Radio 3 | |||
Summoned by Bells | BBC Radio 3 | |||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
Woman's Hour | BBC Radio 4 | |||
BBC Radio 4 | ||||
Bookshelf: "The Poems of John Betjeman" | BBC Radio 4 | Included an interview with Betjeman |
Books
Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Notes | |
Ghastly Good Taste | Chapman & Hall | |||
Devon | Architectural Press | Part of the Shell Guides series | ||
John Miles | ||||
Co-author with Hugh Casson | ||||
Antiquarian Prejudice | Hogarth Press | |||
Vintage London | William Collins, Sons | |||
English Cities and Small Towns | William Collins, Sons | |||
John Piper | Penguin Books | |||
Five Sermons by Laymen | St Matthew's Church, Northampton | Co-authored with C. S. Lewis and others | ||
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide | John Murray | Co-authored with John Piper | ||
Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide | John Murray | Co-authored with John Piper | ||
Studies in the History of Swindon | Swindon Borough Council, Swindon | Co-authored with L. V. Grinsell, H. B. Wells and H. S. Tallamy | ||
Shropshire – with maps and illustrations | Faber & Faber | Part of the Shell Guides series | ||
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | ||||
First and Last Loves | John Murray | |||
Gala Day London | Harvill Secker | |||
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | The Rede Lecture | |||
Some Immortal Hours | John Murray | Twenty copies | ||
Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, including the Isle of Man | William Collins, Sons | |||
Ground Plan to City Skyline | Newman Neame | Published under the name "Richard M Farren" | ||
Clifton College Buildings | Vista Books | |||
English Churches | Vista Books | Co-authored with Basil Clarke | ||
Pitkin Pictorials | One of Pitkin Pride of Britain series | |||
Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches | Collins Publishers | Two volumes | ||
Victorian and Edwardian London From Old Photographs | Batsford Books | |||
Ten Wren Churches | Editions Elector | Limited edition of 100 copies | ||
Victorian and Edwardian Brighton From Old Photographs | Batsford Books | Co-authored with J.S. Gray | ||
John Murray | ||||
London's Historic Railway Stations | John Murray | |||
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford From Old Photographs | Batsford Books | Co-authored with David Vaisey | ||
West Country Churches | Society of Sts Peter & Paul | |||
Church Literature Association | ||||
Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall From Old Photographs | Batsford Books | Co-authored with A. L. Rowse | ||
Archie and the Strict Baptists | John Murray | |||
Metro-land | Warren Editions | |||
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume One | Methuen Publishing | Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green | ||
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume Two | Methuen Publishing | Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green | ||
John Betjeman Coming Home | Methuen Publishing | |||
Trains and Buttered Toast: Betjeman's best BBC radio talks | John Murray | Edited and introduced by Stephen Games | ||
Tennis Whites and Teacakes: An anthology of Betjeman's prose, verse and occasional writing | John Murray | Edited and introduced by Stephen Games | ||
Sweet Songs of Zion: Betjeman's radio programmes about English hymn-writing | Hodder & Stoughton | Edited and introduced by Stephen Games | ||
Betjeman's England: Betjeman's best topographical television programmes | John Murray | Edited and introduced by Stephen Games |
Editor
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.Title | Year of first publication | Author | First edition publisher | Notes | |
Cornwall Illustrated | – | Architectural Press | Part of the Shell Guides series | ||
English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700–1860 | Various | Frederick Muller Ltd | with Geoffrey Taylor | ||
Watergate Children's Classics | Various | Watergate Classics | |||
English Love Poems | Various | Faber and Faber | with Geoffrey Taylor; also a contributor | ||
– | McDowell, Obolensky, New York | ||||
Altar and Pew: Church of England Verses | Various | E Hulton & Co | |||
Rupert Hart-Davis | Also wrote introduction | ||||
Various | Blackwell Publishing, Oxford | with Winnifred Hindley | |||
Selected Poems | John Masefield | Heinemann |
Television
Programme | Date | Channel | Role | Notes | |
How to Make a Guidebook | 21 September 1937 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Tactile Bee | 20 December 1938 | BBC | Participant | ||
Longleat | 20 June 1949 | BBC | – | As a consultant only | |
Readers and Writers | 5 June 1951 | BBC | Co-presenter | ||
Conversation Piece | 2 March 1954 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Where on Earth? | 8 July 1954 | BBC | Traveller | ||
Music From the Castle | 17 October 1954 | BBC | Commentator | ||
Christian Forum | 21 November 1954 | BBC | Participant | ||
Wells Cathedral | 1 April 1955 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Panorama | 25 April 1955 | BBC | Participant | ||
St Paul's Cathedral | 29 May 1955 | BBC | Narrator | ||
Panorama | 29 May 1955 | BBC | Participant | ||
Discovering Britain | 23 September 1955 – 30 March 1956 | ITV | Presenter | Series of 17 short films, on behalf of Shell Oil; also writer | |
Panorama | 5 December 1955 | BBC | Participant | ||
Robert Adam: Architect to an Age of Elegance | 31 January 1956 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Church in Action | 27 August 1956 | BBC | Presenter | ||
9 July 1957 – 5 September 1957 | BBC | Presenter | Series of six programmes | ||
Tonight | 16 September 1957 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
Youth Wants to Know | 3 December 1957 | ITV | Participant | ||
Press Conference | 17 January 1958 | BBC | Participant | ||
About Religion | 19 January 1958 | ITV | Participant | ||
Press Conference | 14 March 1958 | BBC | Participant | ||
Meeting Point | 8 June 1958 – 29 August 1965 | BBC | Participant | Betjeman appeared in nine episodes of the programme | |
Panorama | 30 June 1958 | BBC | Participant | ||
Tonight | 8 December 1958 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
About Religion | 8 December 1958 | ITV | Participant | ||
Mainly for Women: Wednesday Magazine | 18 February 1959 | BBC | Participant | ||
Monitor: John Betjeman, A Poet in London | 1 March 1959 | BBC | Participant | ||
Tonight | 6 March 1959 | BBC | Participant | ||
6 July 1959 | BBC | Participant | |||
Beauty in Trust | 4 August 1959 | BBC | Narrator | Also writer | |
Viewpoint | 9 September 1959 | BBC | Participant | ||
Viewpoint | 4 November 1959 | BBC | Participant | ||
Journey into a Lost World | BBC | Narrator | Also writer | ||
Remembering Summer | 19 January 1960 | BBC | Participant | ||
Monitor | 28 February 1960 | BBC | Participant | ||
26 June 1960 | BBC | Narrator | |||
John Betjeman as the Book Man | 11 September 1960 – 8 January 1961 | ITV | Presenter | Series of nine programmes | |
About Religion | 18 September 1960 | ITV | Participant | ||
Wednesday Magazine | 30 November 1960 – 6 December 1961 | BBC | Participant | Betjeman made four appearances in the series | |
John Betjeman and the Book Man | 8 January 1961 | ITV | Presenter | ||
John Betjeman Goes by Train | 17 April 1961 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Enjoying Life | BBC | Presenter | Produced by the Labour Party | ||
Steam and Stained Glass | 2 April 1962 – 16 April 1962 | ITV | Presenter | Series of three programmes | |
Perspective on Eccentricity | 31 May 1962 | BBC | Presenter | ||
In View: Men of Steam | 26 September 1962 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | |
Perspective | 17 January 1963 | BBC | Participant | ||
Sing a Song of Sixpence | 22 January 1963 – 19 February 1963 | ITV | Presenter | Series of three programmes | |
Let's Imagine a Branch Line Railway | 29 March 1963 | BBC | Presenter | ||
17 July 1963 | BBC | Participant | |||
Seeing and Believing: In Populous City Pent | 6 October 1963 | BBC | Reader | ||
One Man's Country | 22 January 1964 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Something About in Diss | 25 March 1964 | BBC | Narrator | ||
High Mass | 26 July 1964 | BBC | Participant | ||
Writer's World | 5 October 1964 | BBC | Participant | ||
Monitor | 15 December 1964 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Panorama | 21 December 1964 | BBC | Participant | ||
Christmas Carols | 24 December 1964 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Swann, Wallace and Betjeman | 25 December 1964 | BBC | Participant | ||
Monitor | 29 December 1964 | BBC | Participant | ||
3 March 1965 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Muses with Milligan | 3 March 1965 | BBC | Participant | ||
Pity About the Abbey | 29 July 1965 | BBC | Co-writer | Play, co-written with Stewart Farrar | |
BBC 3 | 29 January 1966 | BBC | Guest | ||
Late Show London | 18 February 1966 | Interviewee | |||
19 April 1966 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Footprints | 15 May 1966 | BBC | Narrator | Also writer | |
Late Night Line-Up | 31 July 1966 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
Betjeman at Random | 1 August 1966 – 22 August 1966 | ITV | Interviewer | Series of four programmes | |
Pride of Place | 1 August 1966 – 20 August 1967 | BBC | Participant | Series of nine programmes | |
2 December 1966 | ITV | Interviewee | |||
9 December 1966 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Journey to Bethlehem | 26 December 1966 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Betjeman's London | 14 August 1967 – 18 September 1967 | BBC | Presenter | Series of six programmes | |
10 October 1967 | BBC | Presenter | |||
6 December 1967 | ITV | Interviewee | |||
25 December 1967 | BBC | Narrator | Also written by Betjeman | ||
Contrasts | 31 January 1968 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Aida | 5 February 1968 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Omnibus | 2 April 1968 | BBC | Participant | ||
Summer '67 | 8 April 1968 | BBC | Narrator | ||
26 May 1968 | ITV | Participant | |||
27 August 1968 | ITV | Participant | |||
Release: The Weekly Arts Magazine | 26 October 1968 | BBC | Participant | ||
Viewpoint | 14 November 1968 | BBC | Participant | ||
Frost on Saturday | 30 November 1968 | ITV | Interviewee | ||
Contrasts | 17 December 1968 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | |
Bird's-Eye View: The Englishman's Home | 5 April 1969 – 18 April 1971 | BBC | Presenter | Series of 13 programmes | |
10 April 1969 | BBC | Narrator | |||
Four with Betjeman | 29 June 1970 – 20 July 1970 | BBC | Presenter | Series of four programmes | |
Late Night Line-Up | 26 October 1970 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Look Stranger: Ellan Vannin | 10 December 1970 | BBC | Presenter | ||
24 December 1970 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Aquarius | 26 December 1970 | ITV | Presenter | ||
That Well-Known Store in Knightsbridge | 1 June 1971 | BBC | Presenter | ||
On Camera: Historic Houses | 13 July 1971 | BBC | Participant | ||
Summer Review | 13 August 1971 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Omnibus: "Happy Birthday, Dear Albert" | 12 September 1971 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Treasures of the British Museum | 24 November 1971 | ITV | Presenter | ||
Railways Forever | 1 June 1972 | BBC | Presenter | ||
Collector's World | 15 August 1972 | BBC | Participant | ||
Betjeman in Australia | 13 September 1972 – 4 October 1972 | BBC | Presenter | Series of four programmes | |
Thank God it's Sunday | 10 December 1972 & 17 December 1972 | BBC | Narrator | ||
Parkinson | 17 February 1973 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
Metro-Land | 26 February 1973 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | |
Up Sunday | 27 May 1973 | BBC | Participant | ||
16 September 1973 | BBC | Guest | |||
Nationwide | 19 March 1974 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
Aquarius | 26 May 1974 | ITV | Participant | ||
7 December 1974 | BBC | Narrator | Also writer | ||
Sir John Betjeman | 15 June 1975 | BBC | Presenter | Five-minute appeal on behalf of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast | |
30 September 1975 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Just a Nimmo | 28 January 1976 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
Vicar of the Parish | 29 July 1976 | BBC | Narrator | Also writer | |
Summoned by Bells | 29 August 1976 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | |
Betjeman's Belfast | 12 November 1976 | BBC | Presenter | ||
22 December 1976 | BBC | Presenter | |||
Anyone for Tennyson? | 16 March 1977 | Nebraska Educational Telecommunications | Presenter | ||
Betjeman and Friends | 12 April 1977 & 19 April 1977 | ITV | Presenter | ||
31 May 1977 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | ||
Parkinson | 5 November 1977 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
6 January 1978 | BBC | Participant | |||
Read All About It | 2 April 1978 | BBC | Interviewee | ||
John Betjeman's Dublin | 30 November 1978 | BBC | Presenter | Also writer | |
17 January 1979 & 21 February 1979 | BBC | Participant | |||
Tonight in Town | 1 June 1979 | BBC | Participant | ||
Arena: "Private Life of the Ford Cortina" | 19 January 1982 | BBC | Participant | ||
Time with Betjeman | 13 February 1983 – 27 March 1983 | BBC | Participant | Series of seven programmes | |
4 May 1984 | BBC | Participant |
Discography
Album | Year | Label | Notes |
Argo Records | |||
London Talking Book Co | |||
Betjeman Reads Betjeman | Argo Records | ||
Banana Blush | Virgin Records | With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker | |
Late Flowering Love | Virgin Records | With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker | |
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales | Pye Records | Betjeman and Dame Edith Evans reading the stories | |
Elizabeth II: The Woman and the Queen | Argo Records | ||
Argo Records | |||
Sir John Betjeman's Britain | Virgin Records | With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker | |
Varsity Rag | Virgin Records | With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker |