Works of John Betjeman

Betjeman in 1961

Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended Oxford University, although left without graduating.^[1] He turned down a position in the family furniture business,^[2] and instead took a series of jobs before becoming the assistant editor of The Architectural Review in 1931, which reflected a deeply held affection for buildings and their history. That same year he published his first book, Mount Zion, a collection of poems.^{[3][4][lower-alpha 1]}

In 1932 Betjeman began a career in broadcasting, with a radio programme about the proposed destruction of Waterloo Bridge; he continued with regular radio work for the rest of his life, appearing in a wide range of genres, from panel and game shows, interviews, news interviews, documentaries and poetry readings.^[5] He published his first non-verse book in 1933, Ghastly Good Taste, which was subtitled "a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture"; it reflected his concern of the destruction of Victorian and Edwardian architecture to make way for "grimmer contemporary developments, shopping arcades, and bogus Tudor bars".^[1] In 1937—shortly after the BBC began regular screen broadcasts—he appeared in his first television programme, How to Make a Guidebook,^[6] and went on to appear in a wide range of programmes until his death. His television appearances increased from the 1950s, and his output was prolific.^[7]

In 1960 Betjeman was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), which was followed in 1968 with his election as a Companion of Literature. In 1969 he was knighted and, in 1972, he succeeded Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's Poet Laureate.^[7][8] In the later years of his life, Betjeman suffered from Parkinson's disease, and he died in May 1984. His obituarist in The Times thought him "a true original", and considered that he was "whimsical, imprudent, shrewd, humorous, disarming, always something of an enfant terrible.^[9] The poet Philip Larkin wrote that Betjeman "was not only the best loved poet, but one of the best loved men of our time",^[10] while his biographer, the academic John Clarke, described him as a "unique figure in twentieth-century English poetry, enjoying a degree of fame and success unequalled by any poet since Byron".^[11]

Verse

Betjeman's poetry

Title[12][13][14]	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Notes	Ref.
Mount Zion	1931	James Press		[15]
Continual Dew, a Little Book of Bourgeois Verse	1937	John Murray		[16]
Sir John Piers	1938	Westmeath Examiner, Mullingar, Ireland	Published under the pseudonym Epsilon	[17]
Old Lights for New Chancels, verses topographical and amatory	1940	John Murray		[18]
New Bats in Old Belfries	1945	John Murray		[19]
Slick but not Streamlined	1947	Doubleday, Garden City N.Y.	Introduction by W. H. Auden	[20]
Selected Poems	1948	John Murray	preface by John Sparrow	[21]
St. Katherine's Church, Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire	1950	Privately printed, Chiselhampton	Subtitled Verses Turned in Aid of a Public Subscription towards the Restoration of the Church of St. Katherine, Chiselhampton	[22]
A Few Late Chrysanthemums	1954	John Murray		[23]
Poems in the Porch	1954	Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge		[24]
Collected Poems	1958	John Murray	Compiled and with an introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. This consisted of a selection of Betjeman's poems, rather than a collection of all his work;[25] there have been numerous reprints, some of which have provided additional works for inclusion.[3][lower-alpha 2]	[27]
John Betjeman	1958	John Murray	Selected poems	[28]
Lament for Moira McCavendish	c. 1958–59	Browne Lismore	Undated, but c. 1958–59; booklet, limited to 20 copies	[29]
Summoned by Bells	1960	John Murray		[30]
A Ring of Bells	1962	John Murray		[31]
High and Low	1966	John Murray		[32]
Six Betjeman Songs	1967	Duckworth		[33]
A Wembley Lad and The Crem	1971	Poem of the Month Club		[34]
A Nip in the Air	1974	John Murray		[35]
Betjeman in Miniature: selected poems of Sir John Betjeman	1976	Gleniffer Press, Paisley		[36]
The Best of Betjeman	1978	John Murray	Selected by John Guess	[37]
Five Betjeman Songs	1980	Joseph Weinberger		[38]
Ode on the Marriage of HRH Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer	1980	Warren Editions	Limited to 125 copies	[39]
Church Poems	1981	John Murray		[40]
Uncollected Poems	1982	John Murray		[41]
Betjeman's Cornwall	1984	John Murray		[42]
Ah Middlesex	1984	Warren Editions	Limited to 250 copies	[43]

Radio

Betjeman was broadcast in numerous radio performances, although no full record exists. Most were on British radio, although he also made recordings for American radio.

Radio broadcasts of Betjeman

Broadcast	Date	Channel	Notes	Ref.
"Waterloo Bridge is Falling Down"	17 February 1932	BBC National Programme		[44]
"Conversations in the Train: On the 9.20"	30 April 1932	BBC National Programme		[45]
"All Male Novelty Variety"	1 December 1932	BBC National Programme		[46]
"One Hour of Modern Variety"	23 January 1933	BBC National Programme		[47]
"Variety"	10 February 1933	BBC London Programme		[47]
"One Hour of Variety"	29 March 1933	BBC London Programme		[47]
"Wanted—A Free Hand"	20 February 1934	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
Crowded Moments	2 May 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
"West Country Calendar: May Games or Matter for a May Morning"	18 May 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
Crowded Moments	24 June 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
Crowded Moments	22 August 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
"The Clifton Suspension Bridge"	27 August 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
"Extremes Meet: Build or Rebuild?"	20 December 1936	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
"After Dinner"	26 February 1937	BBC Regional Programme		[47]
Town Tours	12 April – 24 June 1937	BBC West of England Programme	Six episodes	[48]
"What is Wrong with the Cinema"	4 September 1937	BBC National Programme		[49]
Eccentrics: "Adolphus Cooke Esq of Cookesborough"	24 September 1937	BBC Regional Programme	The producer of the programme was Guy Burgess	[50]
Seaview: "Visitors"	22 April 1938	BBC West of England Programme		[51]
Seaview: "A Horrible Holiday"	6 May 1938	BBC West of England Programme		[49]
Seaview: "Where are you Going"	11 May 1938	BBC West of England Programme		[52]
"How to Look at a Church"	31 August 1938	BBC West of England Programme		[53]
"Up to London"	2 January 1939	BBC West of England Programme		[54]
Western Worthies: "The Parson Hawker of Morwenstow"	7 February 1939	BBC West of England Programme		[55]
Built to Last	17 April – 27 June 1939	BBC Regional Programme	Six episodes	[56]
"How to Look at Books"	15 August 1939	BBC Regional Programme		[56]
"Sir Henry Newbolt"	4 January 1940	BBC Home Service		[57]
"Back to the Railway Carriage"	10 March 1940	BBC Home Service		[58]
"Some Comments in Wartime"	4 July 1940	BBC Home Service		[59]
"More Comments in Wartime"	12 August 1940	BBC Home Service		[60]
"War Commentary"	21 November 1940	BBC Home Service		[60]
"Coming Home, or England Revisited"	25 February 1943	BBC Home Service		[61]
"How to Look at a Town"	6 July 1943	BBC Home Service		[60]
"Second Hand Books"	4 November 1943	BBC Home Service		[60]
"Personal Choice"	29 December 1943	BBC Regional Programme		[56]
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"	29 May 1944	BBC Home Service	Betjeman read excerpts of Oscar Wilde's work	[60]
"The World Goes By"	5 August 1944	BBC Home Service		[60]
Book Talk: "Yesterday's Fiction"	21 August 1944	BBC Home Service		[62]
Book Talk: "Wartime Tastes in Reading"	4 September 1944	BBC Home Service		[63]
"Domestic Interior"	14 September 1944	BBC Home Service		[64]
Book Talk	18 September 1944	BBC Home Service		[65]
Country Magazine: "Padstow and St Merryn, Cornwall"	19 November 1944	BBC Home Service		[65]
Arts: "Looking at Things"	25 May 1945	BBC Home Service		[65]
"Hawker of Morwenstone"	25 May 1945	BBC Home Service		[65]
Western Men: "Sabine Baring-Gould"	21 September 1945	BBC West of England Home Service		[66]
"Tennyson as a Humourist"	26 April 1946	BBC Home Service		[65]
Literature in the West: "Augustus Toplady"	23 June 1946	BBC West of England Home Service		[67]
West-Country Short Story: "Move with the Times"	11 September 1946	BBC Home Service		[65]
Living Writers: "Evelyn Waugh"	14 December 1946	BBC Third Programme		[65]
"Seeking Whom He May Devour"	27 December 1946	BBC Home Service		[68]
"Time for Verse"	26 January 1947	BBC Home Service		[69]
"Aberdeen Granite"	28 July 1947	BBC Third Programme		[69]
"The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green"	20 December 1947	BBC Third Programme		[69]
"Christmas Nostalgia"	25 December 1947	BBC Home Service		[70]
New Books and Old Books	12 June 1948	BBC Light Programme		[69]
Three in Hand: "St Protus and St Hyacinth, Blisland, Cornwall"	21 July 1948	BBC West of England Home Service		[71]
Three in Hand: "St John the Baptist, Mildenhall, Wiltshire"	28 July 1948	BBC West of England Home Service		[72]
Three in Hand: "St Mark's, Swindon, Wiltshire"	4 August 1948	BBC West of England Home Service		[73]
New Books and Old Books	30 October 1948	BBC Light Programme		[69]
Buildings and Places: "Padstow"	6 February 1949	BBC Third Programme		[74]
"Letcombe Bassett: The Future of a Village"	19 February 1949	BBC Light Programme		[75]
The West in England's Story: "Victorian Provincial Life"	24 May 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[76]
Coast and Country	3 June – 27 September 1949	BBC West of England Home Service	Series one; nine episodes	[77]
It Begins at Home: "St Petroc"	11 July 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[78]
"The Isle of Man"	7 August 1949	BBC Third Programme		[79]
"Poetry Reading"	20 August 1949	BBC Third Programme	Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry	[80]
"Poetry Reading"	6 October 1949	BBC Third Programme	Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry	[80]
"Country Mixture"	28 October 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[81]
"It Begins at Home"	13 November 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[81]
The Critics	4 December 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[81]
The Critics	11 December 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[81]
The Critics	18 December 1949	BBC West of England Home Service		[81]
"Two Thoughts in a Landscape"	16 April 1950	BBC Third Programme		[81]
"A Hundred Years of Architecture in Wessex"	17 April 1950	BBC West of England Home Service		[82]
"Love in the Valley"	21 April 1950	BBC Third Programme		[83]
"For Your Book List"	5 May 1950	BBC West of England Home Service		[83]
"The Future of the Town"	26 May 1950	BBC Third Programme		[83]
Coast and Country	9 June – 29 September 1950	BBC West of England Home Service	Series two; five episodes	[83]
"Tennyson as a Humorist"	7 July 1950	BBC Third Programme		[84]
"Childhood Days"	16 July 1950	BBC Home Service		[83]
"Théophile-Jules-Henri Marzials"	24 December 1950	BBC Third Programme		[85]
"South Kentish Town"	9 January 1951	BBC Home Service		[83]
The Week's Good Cause	4 February 1951	BBC Home Service	An appeal for the restoration fund of St Mary's Church, Mildenhall	[86]
"Poetic Licence"	7 March 1951	BBC Home Service		[86]
For Your Book List: "William Barnes"	20 March 1951	BBC West of England Home Service		[87]
Let's Go	3 May – 20 September 1951	BBC Light Programme	Betjeman broadcast in seven episodes of the programme	[86]
"Festival in London"	7 May 1951	BBC Home Service		[86]
"Here is our Home"	10 May 1951	BBC West of England Home Service		[86]
Coast and County	18 May – 23 August 1951	BBC West of England Home Service	Series three; five episodes	[86]
The Faith in the West	10 July 1951 – 22 December 1957	BBC Home Service	Betjeman broadcast in 30 episodes of the programme	[86]
"Some Thought on Christmas Parties"	26 December 1951	BBC Home Service		[86]
Three in Hand: "Kelmscott Manor"	4 May 1952	BBC Home Service		[88]
"New Soundings"	14 May 1952	BBC Third Programme		[89]
Three in Hand: "Cardiff Castle"	18 May 1952	BBC Home Service		[90]
"Pugin: A Great Victorian Architect"	15 September 1952	BBC Midland and West of England Home Service	To mark the centenary of Augustus Pugin	[91]
Woman's Hour	24 September 1952	BBC Light Programme		[89]
Evening Service	28 September 1952	BBC Home Service		[89]
"The Fifty One Society"	21 March 1953	BBC North of England Home Service		[92]
"Trains of Thought"	8 May 1953	BBC Home Service		[92]
"Tercentenary of Staunton Harold Church"	27 September 1953	BBC Midlands Home Service		[92]
"Changes of Morals"	15 June 1954	BBC Home Service		[92]
"Town Forum"	17 June 1954	BBC Midlands Home Service		[93]
Desert Island Discs	8 October 1954	BBC Radio 4		[94]
"Personal Call"	11 October 1954	BBC London Calling Asia		[93]
Foreigners	20 February – 13 December 1955	BBC Home Service	Series of three programmes	[93]
"Frankly Speaking"	26 June – 27 December 1955	BBC Home Service	Betjeman broadcast in four episodes of the programme	[95]
"A Christmas Wreath of Prose and Poetry, Woven by John Betjeman"	25 December 1955	BBC Home Service		[96]
"Café Royal: A Study in Conversation"	28 December 1955	BBC Home Service		[96]
"A Young Person's Forum on Books"	31 January 1956	BBC Home Service		[96]
"Using Your Eyes"	20 June 1956	BBC Home Service		[97]
Woman's Hour	27 July 1956	BBC Light Programme		[97]
"Talking of Films"	12 August 1956	BBC Home Service		[97]
"A Young Person's Forum on Books"	28 August 1956	BBC Home Service		[97]
The Week's Good Cause	2 September 1956	BBC Midlands Home Service		[97]
"Past Summers at the Seaside"	3 October 1956	BBC West of England Programme		[97]
The Week's Good Cause	7 October 1956	BBC Midlands Home Service		[97]
"Conversation Piece"	2 December 1956	BBC Home Service		[97]
"Town and Country"	29 May 1957	BBC Home Service		[97]
"The Younger Generation"	21 October 1957	BBC Network Three		[98]
"Personal Choice"	20 February 1958	BBC Home Service		[99]
"Tread Softly..."	16 March 1958	BBC Home Service		[99]
John Betjeman: Poet, Connoisseur and Churchwarden	31 October – 14 November 1958	BBC General Overseas Service	Series of three programmes	[99]
"Poetry Reading"	26 December 1958	BBC Third Programme	Betjeman reads a selection of his own poetry	[80]
Woman's Hour	12 March 1959	BBC Light Programme		[99]
The Week's Good Cause	3 May 1959	BBC Midlands Home Service		[99]
Today	12 May 1959	BBC Home Service		[99]
"The Island-Going Naturalist"	21 June 1959	BBC Home Service		[99]
"Monday Night at Home"	29 June 1959	BBC Home Service		[99]
"Glasgow: The Wondrous City"	6 September 1959	BBC Home Service		[99]
In Town Tonight	3 October 1959	BBC Home Service		[100]
"People Today"	24 December 1959	BBC Home Service		[100]
"The Poetry of the Place"	10 February 1960	BBC General Overseas Service		[100]
"The Enjoyment of Reading"	10 April 1960	BBC General Overseas Service		[100]
"Life and Letters"	9 September 1960	BBC General Overseas Service		[100]
Summoned by Bells	22 November – 28 November 1960	BBC Third Programme	Series one; three programmes	[100]
"On Railways in the South"	12 February 1961	BBC Network Three		[100]
"The Eye-Witness"	11 March 1961	BBC Home Service		[100]
"The Eye-Witness"	30 September 1961	BBC Home Service		[100]
"Portrait of Martin Wilson"	11 March 1962	BBC West of England Home Service		[100]
"Some Aspects of British Snobbery"	18 April 1962	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Royal Academy of the Arts: Annual Dinner"	1 May 1962	BBC Home Service		[101]
"I Remember"	5 June 1962	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Far and Wide"	7 June 1962	BBC South and West Home Service		[101]
"Let's Find Out"	10 August 1962	BBC Light Programme		[101]
The Week's Good Cause	4 November 1962	BBC Home Service		[101]
Woman's Hour	11 December 1962	BBC Light Programme		[101]
In Town Tonight	29 December 1962	BBC Home Service		[101]
"For Your Bookshelf"	11 February 1963	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Famous London Churches"	16 February 1963	BBC General Overseas Service		[101]
"Horizons"	21 March 1963	West of England Home Service		[101]
The Week's Good Cause	7 April 1963	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Turning Points"	7 June 1963	BBC Home Service		[101]
"New Comment"	4 July 1963	BBC Third Programme		[101]
"Hugh Gaitskell: A Radio Portrait"	16 January 1964	BBC Home Service		[101]
"John Betjeman"	15 June 1964	BBC Home Service	Betjeman introduced the programme, which consisted of his poetry set to music	[101]
The Week's Good Cause	6 September 1964	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Frankly Speaking"	23 October 1964	BBC Home Service		[101]
"Conservatories and Other Edwardiana: An Exercise in Nostalgia"	27 December 1964	BBC Third Programme		[101]
The News	5 January 1965	BBC Home Service	Betjeman offered an appreciation on T. S. Eliot	[102]
"Holiday Books"	21 July 1965	BBC Home Service		[102]
"Time and the River"	19 August 1965	BBC Home Service		[102]
"T.E. Brown"	2 October 1965	BBC Third Programme	An appreciation of T.E. Brown	[102]
Britain's Cathedrals and Their Music	19 November 1965 – 1 April 1966	BBC Radio 3	Series of 19 programmes	[103]
"For Ever England	27 December 1965	BBC Third Programme		[102]
The Week's Good Cause	15 May 1966	BBC Home Service		[104]
The Week's Good Cause	4 September 1966	BBC Home Service		[104]
"Louise MacNeice"	7 September 1966	BBC Home Service		[104]
"The World of Books"	1 November 1966	BBC Home Service		[104]
"Evelyn Waugh"	9 August 1967	BBC Third Programme		[104]
Choirs and the Places Where They Sing	20 August – 29 October 1967	BBC Radio 3	Series of nine programmes	[105]
Scenes That Are Brightest	16 June 1968 – 23 March 1969	BBC Radio 4	Series of four programmes	[106]
"Betjeman's Dickens"	9 June 1970	BBC Radio 4		[106]
"Options"	19 July 1970	BBC Radio 4		[106]
"Tennyson: Portrait of a Poet"	12 February 1970	BBC Radio 4		[106]
"A Choice of Paperback"	4 August 1971	BBC Radio 4		[107]
"Sir John Betjeman and Alan Pryce-Jones"	25 December 1971	BBC Radio 3		[108]
"Sir Maurice Bowra"	7 April 1972	BBC Radio 3		[108]
Poetry Prom	20 June 1972 – 25 August 1976	BBC Radio 4	Betjeman appeared in nine episodes	[109]
"The Week's Good Cause"	2 July 1972	BBC Radio 4		[108]
"Now Read On"	5 July 1972	BBC Radio 4		[108]
"Portrait in a Place: William Morris"	6 August 1972	BBC Radio 4		[108]
"Larkin at Fifty"	9 August 1972	BBC Radio 3		[108]
"The Incomparable Max"	27 August 1972	BBC Radio 3		[108]
"Tennyson Eighty Years On"	8 December 1972	BBC Radio 3		[108]
"Victorian Knights"	12 August 1973	BBC Radio 3		[108]
"A Portrait of Lord Berners"	15 December 1973	BBC Radio 3		[110]
"Forty Years On"	29 December 1973	BBC Radio 4		[110]
"Heroes From the Halls"	7 January 1974	BBC Radio 4		[110]
"Can't Put it Down"	20 February 1974	BBC Radio 4		[110]
"Sir John Betjeman"	23 December 1974	BBC Radio 4		[110]
Desert Island Discs	12 April 1975	BBC Radio 4		[111]
Sweet Songs of Zion	6 July – 14 September 1975	BBC Radio 4	Series one; six episodes	[112]
Sir John Betjeman: Earlier and Later Loves	12 November – 17 December 1975	BBC Radio 4	Series of six programmes	[113]
"The Young Idea"	1 May 1976	BBC Radio 3		[110]
The Week's Good Cause	20 June 1974	BBC Radio 4		[110]
Sweet Songs of Zion	18 July – 12 September 1976	BBC Radio 4	Series two; 11 episodes	[114][115]
Kaleidoscope	17 August 1976	BBC Radio 4		[116]
"Betjeman at 70"	28 August 1976	BBC Radio 3		[116]
"Betjemania"	26 December 1976	BBC Radio 4		[116]
"Hymns Ancient and Modern"	12 June 1977	BBC Radio 4		[116]
"Hymns Ancient and Modern"	19 June 1977	BBC Radio 4		[116]
Kaleidoscope	23 June 1977	BBC Radio 4		[116]
Sweet Songs of Zion	2 August – 6 September 1978	BBC Radio 4	Series three; six episodes	[117]
Kaleidoscope	7 December 1978	BBC Radio 4		[118]
Summoned by Bells	9 April 1979	BBC Radio 3		[118]
Summoned by Bells	19 April 1979	BBC Radio 3		[118]
"Books, Plays, Poems: Set Poets"	2 May 1979	BBC Radio 4		[118]
Woman's Hour	15 June 1979	BBC Radio 4		[118]
"With Great Pleasure"	22 December 1979	BBC Radio 4		[118]
Bookshelf: "The Poems of John Betjeman"	28 December 1980	BBC Radio 4	Included an interview with Betjeman	[118]

Books

Non-fiction work by Betjeman

Title[13][14][119]	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Notes	Ref.
Ghastly Good Taste	1933	Chapman & Hall		[120]
Devon	1936	Architectural Press	Part of the Shell Guides series	[121]
An Oxford University Chest	1938	John Miles		[122]
A Handbook on Paint	1939	The Silicate Paint Co	Co-author with Hugh Casson	[123]
Antiquarian Prejudice	1939	Hogarth Press		[124]
Vintage London	1942	William Collins, Sons		[125]
English Cities and Small Towns	1943	William Collins, Sons		[126]
John Piper	1944	Penguin Books		[127]
Five Sermons by Laymen	1946	St Matthew's Church, Northampton	Co-authored with C. S. Lewis and others	[128]
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide	1948	John Murray	Co-authored with John Piper	[129]
Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide	1949	John Murray	Co-authored with John Piper	[130]
Studies in the History of Swindon	1950	Swindon Borough Council, Swindon	Co-authored with L. V. Grinsell, H. B. Wells and H. S. Tallamy	[131]
Shropshire – with maps and illustrations	1951	Faber & Faber	Part of the Shell Guides series	[132]
The English Scene	1951	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge		[133]
First and Last Loves	1952	John Murray		[134]
Gala Day London	1953	Harvill Secker		[135]
The English Town in the Last Hundred Years	1956	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge	The Rede Lecture	[136]
Some Immortal Hours	1957	John Murray	Twenty copies	[38]
Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, including the Isle of Man	1958	William Collins, Sons		[137]
Ground Plan to City Skyline	1960	Newman Neame	Published under the name "Richard M Farren"	[26]
Clifton College Buildings	1962	Vista Books		[138]
English Churches	1964	Vista Books	Co-authored with Basil Clarke	[139]
The City of London Churches	1965	Pitkin Pictorials	One of Pitkin Pride of Britain series	[140]
Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches	1968	Collins Publishers	Two volumes	[141]
Victorian and Edwardian London From Old Photographs	1969	Batsford Books		[142]
Ten Wren Churches	1970	Editions Elector	Limited edition of 100 copies	[123]
Victorian and Edwardian Brighton From Old Photographs	1971	Batsford Books	Co-authored with J.S. Gray	[143]
A Pictorial History of English Architecture	1972	John Murray		[144]
London's Historic Railway Stations	1972	John Murray		[145]
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford From Old Photographs	1972	Batsford Books	Co-authored with David Vaisey	[146]
West Country Churches	1973	Society of Sts Peter & Paul		[147]
A Plea for Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street	1974	Church Literature Association		[148]
Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall From Old Photographs	1974	Batsford Books	Co-authored with A. L. Rowse	[149]
Archie and the Strict Baptists	1977	John Murray		[150]
Metro-land	1977	Warren Editions		[151]
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume One	1994	Methuen Publishing	Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green	[152]
John Betjeman's Letters: Volume Two	1995	Methuen Publishing	Edited and introduced by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green	[153]
John Betjeman Coming Home	1997	Methuen Publishing		[154]
Trains and Buttered Toast: Betjeman's best BBC radio talks	2006	John Murray	Edited and introduced by Stephen Games	[155]
Tennis Whites and Teacakes: An anthology of Betjeman's prose, verse and occasional writing	2007	John Murray	Edited and introduced by Stephen Games	[156]
Sweet Songs of Zion: Betjeman's radio programmes about English hymn-writing	2007	Hodder & Stoughton	Edited and introduced by Stephen Games	[157]
Betjeman's England: Betjeman's best topographical television programmes	2009	John Murray	Edited and introduced by Stephen Games	[158]

Editor

Betjeman's statue at St Pancras railway station

Betjeman undertook the role of editor for several magazines and journals, including the undergraduate magazines of Oxford Outlook and Cherwell; the following consists of the books he edited.^[159]

Works which Betjeman edited

Title[14]	Year of first publication	Author	First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Notes	Ref.
Cornwall Illustrated	1934	–	Architectural Press	Part of the Shell Guides series	[160]
English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700–1860	1944	Various	Frederick Muller Ltd	with Geoffrey Taylor	[161]
Watergate Children's Classics	1947	Various	Watergate Classics		[162]
The English Counties Illustrated	1948	Various	Odhams	Betjeman wrote the chapter on Berkshire	[163]
English Love Poems	1957	Various	Faber and Faber	with Geoffrey Taylor; also a contributor	[164]
An American's Guide to English Parish Churches, Including the Isle of Man	1958	–	McDowell, Obolensky, New York		[165]
Altar and Pew: Church of England Verses	1959	Various	E Hulton & Co		[166]
A Hundred Sonnets	1960	Charles Tennyson Turner	Rupert Hart-Davis	Also wrote introduction	[167]
A Wealth of Poetry	1963	Various	Blackwell Publishing, Oxford	with Winnifred Hindley	[168]
Selected Poems	1978	John Masefield	Heinemann		[169]

Television

Television appearances of Betjeman

Programme[170][171][172]	Date	Channel	Role	Notes	Ref.
How to Make a Guidebook	21 September 1937	BBC	Presenter		[173]
Tactile Bee	20 December 1938	BBC	Participant		[174]
Longleat	20 June 1949	BBC	–	As a consultant only	[174]
Readers and Writers	5 June 1951	BBC	Co-presenter		[174]
Conversation Piece	2 March 1954	BBC	Presenter		[174]
Where on Earth?	8 July 1954	BBC	Traveller		[175]
Music From the Castle	17 October 1954	BBC	Commentator		[174]
Christian Forum	21 November 1954	BBC	Participant		[174]
Wells Cathedral	1 April 1955	BBC	Presenter		[174]
Panorama	25 April 1955	BBC	Participant		[174]
St Paul's Cathedral	29 May 1955	BBC	Narrator		[176]
Panorama	29 May 1955	BBC	Participant		[176]
Discovering Britain	23 September 1955 – 30 March 1956	ITV	Presenter	Series of 17 short films, on behalf of Shell Oil; also writer	[177]
Panorama	5 December 1955	BBC	Participant		[178]
Robert Adam: Architect to an Age of Elegance	31 January 1956	BBC	Presenter		[176]
Church in Action	27 August 1956	BBC	Presenter		[179]
The Englishman's Home	9 July – 5 September 1957	BBC	Presenter	Series of six programmes	[179]
Tonight	16 September 1957	BBC	Interviewee		[179]
Youth Wants to Know	3 December 1957	ITV	Participant		[179]
Press Conference	17 January 1958	BBC	Participant		[179]
About Religion	19 January 1958	ITV	Participant		[179]
Press Conference	14 March 1958	BBC	Participant		[179]
Meeting Point	8 June 1958 – 29 August 1965	BBC	Participant	Betjeman appeared in nine episodes of the programme	[180]
Panorama	30 June 1958	BBC	Participant		[181]
Tonight	8 December 1958	BBC	Interviewee		[181]
About Religion	8 December 1958	ITV	Participant		[181]
Mainly for Women: Wednesday Magazine	18 February 1959	BBC	Participant		[181]
Monitor: John Betjeman, A Poet in London	1 March 1959	BBC	Participant		[182][183]
Tonight	6 March 1959	BBC	Participant		[181]
The Royal Scottish Academy	6 July 1959	BBC	Participant		[181]
Beauty in Trust	4 August 1959	BBC	Narrator	Also writer	[184][185]
Viewpoint	9 September 1959	BBC	Participant		[181]
Viewpoint	4 November 1959	BBC	Participant		[181]
Journey into a Lost World	1960	BBC	Narrator	Also writer	[186]
Remembering Summer	19 January 1960	BBC	Participant		[181]
Monitor	28 February 1960	BBC	Participant		[187]
A Journey into the Weald	26 June 1960	BBC	Narrator		[188]
John Betjeman as the Book Man	11 September 1960 – 8 January 1961	ITV	Presenter	Series of nine programmes	[189]
About Religion	18 September 1960	ITV	Participant		[189]
Wednesday Magazine	30 November 1960 – 6 December 1961	BBC	Participant	Betjeman made four appearances in the series	[190]
John Betjeman and the Book Man	8 January 1961	ITV	Presenter		[189]
John Betjeman Goes by Train	17 April 1961	BBC	Presenter		[191]
Enjoying Life	1962	BBC	Presenter	Produced by the Labour Party	[192]
Steam and Stained Glass	2 April – 16 April 1962	ITV	Presenter	Series of three programmes	[193]
Perspective on Eccentricity	31 May 1962	BBC	Presenter		[193]
In View: Men of Steam	26 September 1962	BBC	Presenter	Also writer	[193]
Perspective	17 January 1963	BBC	Participant		[193]
Sing a Song of Sixpence	22 January – 19 February 1963	ITV	Presenter	Series of three programmes	[193]
Let's Imagine a Branch Line Railway	29 March 1963	BBC	Presenter		[194]
The Muse in SW1	17 July 1963	BBC	Participant		[193]
Seeing and Believing: In Populous City Pent	6 October 1963	BBC	Reader		[193]
One Man's Country	22 January 1964	BBC	Presenter		[195]
Something About in Diss	25 March 1964	BBC	Narrator		[196]
High Mass	26 July 1964	BBC	Participant		[195]
Writer's World	5 October 1964	BBC	Participant		[195]
Monitor	15 December 1964	BBC	Presenter		[197]
Panorama	21 December 1964	BBC	Participant		[195]
Christmas Carols	24 December 1964	BBC	Presenter		[195]
Swann, Wallace and Betjeman	25 December 1964	BBC	Participant		[195]
Monitor	29 December 1964	BBC	Participant		[195]
A Thousand Years From Milton—from Milton Abbey	3 March 1965	BBC	Presenter		[198]
Muses with Milligan	3 March 1965	BBC	Participant		[195]
Pity About the Abbey	29 July 1965	BBC	Co-writer	Play, co-written with Stewart Farrar	[195]
BBC 3	29 January 1966	BBC	Guest		[199]
Late Show London	18 February 1966		Interviewee		[200]
A Man With a View	19 April 1966	BBC	Presenter		[199]
Footprints	15 May 1966	BBC	Narrator	Also writer (in verse)	[199]
Late Night Line-Up	31 July 1966	BBC	Interviewee		[199]
Betjeman at Random	1 August – 22 August 1966	ITV	Interviewer	Series of four programmes	[201]
Pride of Place	1 August 1966 – 20 August 1967	BBC	Participant	Series of nine programmes	[202]
The Frost Programme	2 December 1966	ITV	Interviewee		[203]
The Founder: The Story of Lancing College	9 December 1966	BBC	Presenter		[203]
Journey to Bethlehem	26 December 1966	BBC	Presenter		[204]
Betjeman's London	14 August – 18 September 1967	BBC	Presenter	Series of six programmes	[205]
The Picture Theatre	10 October 1967	BBC	Presenter		[206]
The Frost Programme	6 December 1967	ITV	Interviewee		[206]
A Tale of Canterbury	25 December 1967	BBC	Narrator	Also written by Betjeman	[207]
Contrasts	31 January 1968	BBC	Presenter		[206]
Aida	5 February 1968	BBC	Presenter		[206]
Omnibus	2 April 1968	BBC	Participant		[206]
Summer '67	8 April 1968	BBC	Narrator		[206]
The Morning Service	26 May 1968	ITV	Participant		[206]
A Portrait of Hardy	27 August 1968	ITV	Participant		[206]
Release: The Weekly Arts Magazine	26 October 1968	BBC	Participant		[206]
Viewpoint	14 November 1968	BBC	Participant		[206]
Frost on Saturday	30 November 1968	ITV	Interviewee		[208]
Contrasts	17 December 1968	BBC	Presenter	Also writer	[206]
Bird's-Eye View: The Englishman's Home	5 April 1969 – 18 April 1971	BBC	Presenter	Series of 13 programmes	[209][210]
A Cathedral for Cornwell	10 April 1969	BBC	Narrator		[209]
Four with Betjeman	29 June – 20 July 1970	BBC	Presenter	Series of four programmes	[209]
Late Night Line-Up	26 October 1970	BBC	Presenter		[211]
Look Stranger: Ellan Vannin	10 December 1970	BBC	Presenter		[212]
An Evening with John Betjeman	24 December 1970	BBC	Presenter		[213]
Aquarius	26 December 1970	ITV	Presenter		[213]
That Well-Known Store in Knightsbridge	1 June 1971	BBC	Presenter		[214]
On Camera: Historic Houses	13 July 1971	BBC	Participant		[213]
Summer Review	13 August 1971	BBC	Presenter		[213]
Omnibus: "Happy Birthday, Dear Albert"	12 September 1971	BBC	Presenter		[213]
Treasures of the British Museum	24 November 1971	ITV	Presenter		[213]
Railways Forever	1 June 1972	BBC	Presenter		[215][216]
Collector's World	15 August 1972	BBC	Participant		[217]
Betjeman in Australia	13 September – 4 October 1972	BBC	Presenter	Series of four programmes	[217]
Thank God it's Sunday	10 & 17 December 1972	BBC	Narrator		[217][218]
Parkinson	17 February 1973	BBC	Interviewee		[217]
Metro-Land	26 February 1973	BBC	Presenter	Also writer	[219]
Up Sunday	27 May 1973	BBC	Participant		[220]
A Chance to Meet	16 September 1973	BBC	Guest		[220]
Nationwide	19 March 1974	BBC	Interviewee		[220]
Aquarius	26 May 1974	ITV	Participant		[220]
A Passion for Churches	7 December 1974	BBC	Narrator	Also writer	[221]
Sir John Betjeman	15 June 1975	BBC	Presenter	Five-minute appeal on behalf of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast	[222]
The Book Programme	30 September 1975	BBC	Presenter		[223]
Just a Nimmo	28 January 1976	BBC	Interviewee		[224]
Vicar of the Parish	29 July 1976	BBC	Narrator	Also writer	[222]
Summoned by Bells	29 August 1976	BBC	Presenter	Also writer	[222]
Betjeman's Belfast	12 November 1976	BBC	Presenter		[222]
The Enthusiast	22 December 1976	BBC	Presenter		[222]
Anyone for Tennyson?	16 March 1977	Nebraska Educational Telecommunications	Presenter		[222]
Betjeman and Friends	12 & 19 April 1977	ITV	Presenter		[225][226]
The Queen's Realm: A Prospect of England	31 May 1977	BBC	Presenter	Also wrier	[227]
Parkinson	5 November 1977	BBC	Interviewee		[228]
The Bold Red Baronet	6 January 1978	BBC	Participant		[229]
Read All About It	2 April 1978	BBC	Interviewee		[228]
John Betjeman's Dublin	30 November 1978	BBC	Presenter	Also writer	[230]
The Innes Book of Records	17 January & 21 February 1979	BBC	Participant		[231][232]
Tonight in Town	1 June 1979	BBC	Participant		[228]
Arena: "Private Life of the Ford Cortina"	19 January 1982	BBC	Participant		[233]
Time with Betjeman	13 February – 27 March 1983	BBC	Participant	Series of seven programmes	[234]
The Architect of Civic Pride	4 May 1984	BBC	Participant		[235]

Discography

Betjeman reads William Horton's petition to Save Lewisham town hall, 1961

LP recordings by Betjeman

Album[236]	Year	Label	Notes
The Golden Treasury of John Betjeman	1956	Argo Records
The Story of Jesus	1960	London Talking Book Co
Betjeman Reads Betjeman	1961	Argo Records
Banana Blush	1974	Virgin Records	With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Late Flowering Love	1974	Virgin Records	With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	1975	Pye Records	Betjeman and Dame Edith Evans reading the stories
Elizabeth II: The Woman and the Queen	1977	Argo Records
The World of John Betjeman	1977	Argo Records
Sir John Betjeman's Britain	1977	Virgin Records	With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker
Varsity Rag	1981	Virgin Records	With musical accompaniment from Jim Parker

Notes and references

Notes

1. Although some sources put the date he joined The Architectural Review as 1931,^[3][4] others put the date as 1930.^[1]
2. These reprints include in 1958, 1959 (when it was englarged), 1962 (when it was enlarged again), 1970, 1971 and 1980.^[26][14]

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