Dozens of events have been taking place across Cornwall to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of one of Britain's most famous poets. Sir John Betjeman, who was Poet Laureate from 1972 until ...

To mark the centenary of his birth, BBC TWO and BBC Radio present a series of programmes about poet John Betjeman. John Betjeman is still remembered as one of Britain's best loved poets - a man who ...

To mark the centenary of his birth, BBC TWO and BBC Radio present a series of programmes about poet John Betjeman. John Betjeman is still remembered as one of Britain's best loved poets - a man who ...

A single sampling one of his poems has already made it on to the Radio 1 playlist. Now John Betjeman is to be remembered in a series of BBC programmes marking the centenary of his birth. It is a mark ...

Sir John Betjeman, one of the best-loved British poets of the 20th century, was initially overlooked as poet laureate because he was considered a lightweight “versifier” who lacked serious merit, ...

A neat comic sense, an unfeigned comfort with 19th-century manners and forms, and a good eye for English milieus made Betjeman (1906–1984) both a great craftsman of light verse and the most popular ...

John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called “the greatest bad poet now living.” It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called ...

A SET of Victorian church bells praised by the poet Sir John Betjeman could be silenced after claims from a local pub landlord that they "drive him nuts". The bells of St Peter and St Paul Church in ...