Hugh Whitemore's skillful highlights reel over-eggs a complex poet's charmBard of Metroland and scourge of Slough, John Betjeman is, alongside Philip Larkin on parenthood, still one of the 20th Century's most-quoted poets. Hugh Whitemore's play, part highlights reading and part biographical drama, offers a hugely charming account of a poet who, for many readers, epitomises a nostalgic but conflicted view of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM on June 1, 2017