I post this edited version of an email from Paul Quinn - the producer of
the BBC 3 programme on JH Prynne aired last night - with Paul's permission:
> Always a difficult one. You won't believe how I had
> to fight to get something that was deemed obscure and difficult on the
air
> at all...also giving it more space (Nightwaves usually has 4 topics!)
than
> most cultural events get. I thought the programme did succeed in getting
> the excitement of Prynne-the taped way in laid the ground for this... I
would > say that 3 voices in so cramped a space was perhaps too much and in
retrospect > could have been organised differently; The ideal format would
be 5 progs
> spread through the week reading and interpreting single poems each night,
> unfortunately that was not available to us.
> ...In the end the
> programme gave the uninitiated a sense that far from being hermetic,
> Prynne is one of the most public, political and exciting poets
> around...and, I must say the feedback I have had from the unitiated
> already, gives me particular pleasure...
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