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Wilfred Pickles

 

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John Keats : [unknown]

'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles      Print: Book

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : [unknown]

'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles      Print: Book

  

George Bernard Shaw : [unknown]

'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles      Print: Book

  

John Galsworthy : [unknown]

'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Pickles      Print: Book

 

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