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ОглавлениеWILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
LONDON::TORONTO
FIRST PUBLISHED 1946
THIS BOOK IS PRODUCED IN COMPLETE
CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORISED
ECONOMY STANDARDS
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE WINDMILL PRESS
KINGSWOOD, SURREY
Footnote
I fear that an apology should be made to any reader of the six broadcasts that form the greater part of this book. They were composed for the ears of listeners; and though of course a writer should always write not less for the ear than for the eye of the reader, he does not, in writing for the ear only, express himself in just the way that would be his if he were writing for the eye as well. He trusts the inflexions of his voice to carry the finer shades of his meaning and of his feeling. He does not take his customary pains to make mere typography leave no barrier between his reader and him. I would therefore take the liberty of advising you to read these broadcasts aloud to yourself—or to ask some friend to read them aloud to you.
I have included in the book six other things—narrowcasts, as it were. The first of these appeared in The Windmill, the second and fourth in World Review, the third in The Carthusian, the fifth in The Cornhill, and the sixth in The London Mercury (and afterwards in one of the volumes of a limited edition of my writings).
The broadcasts all appeared in The Listener; and some portions of 'Speed' were, I am pleased to say, used by the Pedestrians' Association as a pamphlet.
M. B.
BROADCASTS
| page | |
| London Revisited (1935) | 1 |
| Speed (1936) | 13 |
| A Small Boy Seeing Giants (1936) | 25 |
| Music Halls of My Youth (1942) | 37 |
| Advertisements (1942) | 49 |
| Playgoing (1945) | 61 |
