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- 20 Sept 1942 (Creation)
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West Hackhurst. - Hopes his wire reached her in good time; had been staying with the Kennets and only just got her letter. Monday the 28th would 'suit splendidly'; asks her to drop him a line to confirm nearer the time. Will of course meet her bus and take her back to it; she will have 'coffee on arrival, tea on departure, and alcohol between times - if acceptable, that is to say'.
He does 'dislike voices against music when there is no reason for it, but there was a reason here [further discussion of the BBC broadcast of his short story The Celestial Omnibus, see also TRER/ADD/45-46], and for the music being Wagner'. Believes the first chapter of A Passage to India is to be broadcast on the 28th, 'some unearthly hour of the night as usual'.
His mother looks forward to seeing Bessie.
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The Celestial Omnibus was broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 1 Sept 1942, in an adaptation by Leonard Cottrell.
The first chapter of A Passage to India, 'Chandrapore', was in fact broadcast on the BBC Home Service at 11.05 pm on 29 Sept 1942, read by James Langham.
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- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and essayist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Young, Edward Hilton (1879-1960) first Baron Kennet of the Dene, politician (Subject)
- Young, Edith Agnes Kathleen Hilton (1878-1947) sculptor (Subject)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (Subject)
- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard (1813-1883), composer (Subject)
- Forster, Alice Clara (1855-1945), mother of E. M. Forster (Subject)