John Betjeman - Betjeman Reads Betjeman
0C. John Betjeman - Middles- Quiet - Author Is Told He Is an Alien - An Altercation at an Auction Bridge Party - An Unpleasant Nursemaid - The Factory - Author Is Expected to Carry on Family Business - Author's Preference for Poetry - Early Attempts at Writing It - Disappointment of Father - Highgate Junior School - Suspected of Being a German Spy - The American Master, Mr Eliot, and the Enigma of His Opinion of Author's Poems - Cornwall in Childhood - Private School at Oxford - River Expedition. 0D. John Betjeman - Marlborough - Sense of Impending Doom - Rules - Immunity During Chapel Services - Upper School - Its Ranks - Evening Prep - 'Big Fire' - Cornwall in Adolescence - The Author's Mother - A Row at Breakfast - Oxford - The George Restaurant, Oxford - Chatter of Its Customers - Sunday Morning - High Mass at Pusey House - Dinner in Wadham with Maurice Bowra - Irregular Ode to Oxford - The Leisured Set in Canterbury Quad - Edward James - Author Fails in Holy Scripture - Becomes a Private Schoolmaster. B1. John Betjeman - A Lincolnshire Church