RADIO CAMELOT: ARTHURIAN LEGENDS ON THE BBC 1922-2005 by Simpson, Roger - 2008

D. S. Brewer. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 1843841401 . Pioneering study of how the Arthurian legend was recreated in the 20th century through radio. Draws on unpublished sources in the BBC's Written Archives. Full account of the growth of Arthurian radio drama, which evolved from D. G. Bridson's patriotic pre-war King Arthur, via the Holy Grail and the Lady of Shalott, to its flowering in the 1990s with Kevin Crossley-Holland's "Arthur's Knight". Also 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. ; 8vo; 189 pp .