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Hace 5 días · Great Lives. Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life".
Hace 2 días · Benjamin Britten. Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ...
10 de may. de 2024 · Humphrey Carpenter's J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography explained that a tarantula once bit Tolkien when he was growing up in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Many pointed to the incident as the source of Tolkien's fascination with evil spiders, but Tolkien denied this.
Hace 3 días · Bonython or Bonithon, for many generations the seat of an ancient family of that name, the elder branch of Bonython of Carclew, was sold to Humphrey Carpenter, about the year 1720. It was, of late years, some time the seat of John Trevenen, Esq., from whom it passed, by sale, to Graham, and, from the latter, to Thomas Hartley, Esq ...
10 de may. de 2024 · The play within the play explores a fictitious conversation between poet W. H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten, in Oxford, in their autumn years. It is partly narrated by Humphrey Carpenter who, in real life, penned biographies of both men. The play(s) puncture theatrical illusions.
15 de may. de 2024 · Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A. Milne and others whose works make up the Golden Age of children's literature.
6 de may. de 2024 · Answer: Humphrey Carpenter Mr. Carpenter has been allowed to research many family papers and to talk with family friends. Christopher continued to work in editing his father literature, long after the latter's death.
