A BBC RADIO PROGRAM IN THE WAKE OF THE WAR EM FORSTER Autogr

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A BBC RADIO PROGRAM IN THE WAKE OF THE WAR E.M. FORSTER. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, working draft of a script for an episode of his "Some Books" radio program for BBC, a review of Stephen Spender's European Witness and Rex Warner's The Cult of Power, [broadcast on November 20, 1946]. 8 1/2 pages, small 4to, ruled paper, written on rectos of separate sheets; faint scattered soiling, folds. Np, [November 1946]

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"Few important books have appeared lately--few anyhow have come my way. Perhaps the world is in too agitated a state for events to be recorded, or for the still more difficult feat of creation. . . ."

Published in The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960, ed. Lago, Hughes, and Walls (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008), 374-77.