Word: grisewood
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
...cost less than comedians, the Third Programme operates comfortably on a budget of around $2,000,000 a year. And because it broadcasts only in the evening and leans heavily on recordings, the Third can get by with a permanent staff of 15, headed by 45-year-old Harman Grisewood. An Oxford graduate who came up through the BBC ranks as an actor and announcer, Grisewood often acts as his own talent scout. Pipelines to the universities and London literary circles help him find out who is at work on a new critique of Shelley or who is just back...
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