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Radio Camelot - Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005 (Hardcover)
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Radio Camelot - Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005 (Hardcover)
Series: Arthurian Studies
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The Arthurian legend as treated on radio. `The writer argues
persuasively that the treatment of Arthurian themes on radio was a
significant contribution to the development of the "Matter of
Britain" in the twentieth century... impressively comprehensive,
covering music, readings, features, and drama.... He unearths a
great deal of information that will be of interest not only to
Arthurian scholars, but also to students of radio and the history
of broadcasting... An extremely valuable and entertaining record of
twentieth-century Arthurian work'. NIGEL BRYANT Radio has been an
important medium for the recreation of the Arthurian legend,
reshaping the Matter of Britain in response to changing social and
cultural contexts through adapting the traditional material and
developing new genres. This pioneering study, drawing on
unpublished sources in the BBC Written Archives, uncovers a wealth
of material that greatly expands the Arthurian canon. It is both a
lively but authoritative record, and critical evaluation, of
broadcast music, drama, literature (from medieval to modern), and
documentary feature programmes.In particular, the author provides a
full account of thegrowth of Arthurian radio drama, which evolved
from D. G. Bridson's patriotic pre-war King Arthur, via
fascinations with the Holy Grail and the Lady of Shalott, to its
flowering in the 1990s with Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur's
Knight. Along the way he traces Tolkien's and T. H. White's
involvement with the BBC, and reveals radio's role in widening
access to the Arthurian operas of Purcell and Wagner. The text is
complemented by contemporary illustrations from the Radio Times.
ROGER SIMPSON, who previously taught English and British Studies at
the University of East Anglia, is the author of Camelot Regained
and numerous articles about the Arthurian Revival.
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