Prolific Bafta-winning composer of music for Midsomer Murders, the BBC's House of Cards and Victoria Wood's TV dramas "I committed a lapse of taste last month and I will not be surprised if I am dismissed from my honourable office," wrote Sir John Betjeman in 1974. The letter's recipient was Major Sir Rennie Maudslay, keeper of the privy purse. The lapse in taste was Betjeman's Banana Blush, an album in which the poet laureate recited a dozen of his poems to a series of musical settings by the c...
Prolific Bafta-winning composer of music for Midsomer Murders, the BBC's House of Cards and Victoria Wood's TV dramas "I committed a lapse of taste last month and I will not be surprised if I am dismissed from my honourable office," wrote Sir John Betjeman in 1974. The letter's recipient was Major Sir Rennie Maudslay, keeper of the privy purse. The lapse in taste was Betjeman's Banana Blush, an album in which the poet laureate recited a dozen of his poems to a series of musical settings by the c...
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