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	*The Savage Detectives*: In 1970s Mexico City, two young poets start a militant literary movement, the Visceral Realists.
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« In the Pink »
Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog	5.9.2008

06 July 2007

In the Pink

The BBC Programme Catalogue is back in Beta, with a new look and a slight change of address.

Everything appears to work the same as the "experimental" version which has been out since the spring of 2006, although I think there's been some re-organization of the way data is displayed in series and one-offs. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The first thing I noticed was this entry for a 1987 recording of Reed's Emily Butter: 'The first performance of Hilda Tablet's opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Starring Mary O'Farrell and Hugh Burden. Music realised by Max Saunders with orchestrations by Max Saunders.' I'm not at all sure I'd ever seen that before!

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Chris: "This was the series of repeats (yes, definitely repeats) broadcast after Douglas Cleverdon's death. I can only speculate about what the 'recording date' is - perhaps the date of transfer from the original tapes?"

06 July 2007

steef: "Thus the giant "RPT" in the record's title. Q.E.D.! Thanks, Chris! And then there's this little mysterious tidbit."

06 July 2007

1348. Sonzogni, Marco. Afterword to Mottetti, by Eugenio Montale, translated by Henry Reed. PN Review 180 34, no. 4 (March-April 2008): 38-41.

Sonzogni appraises Reed's translations of Montale's Mottetti, and describes Reed's manuscripts and his history with the poems and the Italian language.

1st Lesson:

Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.

Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, GC&CS, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980.

Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946)
The Novel Since 1939 (1946)
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947)
Lessons of the War (1970)
Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971)
The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971)
Collected Poems (1991, 2007)
The Auction Sale (2006)