(C260) ‘Side Dishes’. Listener, Vol. 8, No. 203, 30 November 1932, pp. 799-800. Review of ‘The Letters of Jane Austen’, edited by R. W. Chapman; ‘A Fitzgerald Friendship: Letters from Edward Fitzgerald to W.B. Donne; Macaulay’, by Arthur Bryant; ‘Texts and Pretexts’, by Aldous Huxley; and ‘Words and Names’, by Ernest Weekley. Fifth in a series of seven talks on books (see F3a(9) ).
(C261) ‘Tales of Unrest’. Listener, Vol. 8, No. 205, 14 December 1932, pp. 869-870. Review of ‘Mask and Man’, by F. Chaliapin; ‘History of the Russian Revolution’, by Leon Trotsky; ‘Low’s Russian Sketch-Book’, text by Kingsley Martin; ‘The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921’; ‘Just the Other Day’, by John Collier and Iain Lang; and ‘Escapers All’, published by the Bodley Head. Sixth in a series of seven talks on books (see F3a(10) ).
(C262) ‘Not New Books’. Listener, Vol. 8 No. 207, 28 December 1932, pp. 951, 952. Seven books by Lytton Strachey and eight other authors reviewed. Last in a series of seven talks on books (see F3a(11) ). Discussed in leading article on p.924. See also C263.
(C273) ‘Good Society’. New Statesman & Nation, NS, Vol. 7, No. 174, 23 June 1934, pp. 950, 952. Review of ‘A Backwards Glance’, by Edith Wharton.
(C324) ‘The Books of 1938: reviewed by E.M. Forster at the microphone on December 26’. Listener, Vol. 20, No. 520, 29 December 1938, pp. 1422-1423. Broadcast talk (see F3a(17) ).
(C382) ‘Humanist and Authoritarian’. Listener, Vol. 30, No. 763, 26 August 1943, pp. 242-243. Broadcast talk (F3a(65) ). Reprinted as: ‘Gide and George’, ‘Two Cheers for Democracy’, 1951.
(C394) ‘India after Twenty-Five Years’. Listener, Vol. 35, Nos. 890-89131 January and 7 February 1946, pp. 133-134, 171-172. Broadcast talks (see F3a(110-111) ). Reprinted as: ‘India Again’, ‘Two Cheers for Democracy’, 1951.
(C412) ‘Bookshelves of a Lover of Words’. London Calling, No. 505, 26 May 1949, p. 18. Broadcast talk (see F3a(131) ); third I a series entitles ‘In My Library’, the earlier contributors being Desmond MacCarthy and Harold Nicholson. Reprinted as: ‘In My Library’, Listener, Vol. 42, No. 1067, 7 July 1949, p. 24. ‘On the Meaning of a Man’s Books: E.M. Forster, Looking Over his Library, finds Old Friends and Some Strangers’, New York Times, 11 September 1949, Book Review, pp. 1, 14. ‘In My Library’, Two Cheers for Democracy., 1951.
(C416) ‘Bikaner’. Listener, Vol. 43, No. 1117, 22 June 1950. p. 1065. Review of ‘The Art and Architecture of Bikaner State’, by Hermann Goetz.
(C419) ‘George Orwell’. Listener, Vol. 44, No. 1131, 2 November 1950, p. 471. Review of ‘Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays’, by George Orwell. Reprinted: Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951.
(C424) ‘The Unbuilt City’. Listener, Vol. 45, No. 1156, 26 April 1951, p. 673. Review of ‘The Enchafèd Flood’, by W.H. Auden. Reprinted as: ‘The Enchafèd Flood’, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951.
(C425) ‘Mount Lebanon’. Listener, Vol. 45, No 1160, 24 May 1951, p. 845. On the Shaker sect. Reprinted: Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951.
(C427) ‘In the Rue Lepsius’. Listener, Vol. 46, No. 1166, 5 July 1951, pp. 28-29. Review of ‘The Poems of C.P. Cavafy’, translated by John Mavrogordato, with an introduction by Rex Warner. Reprinted as: ‘The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy’, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951.
(C428) ‘Fifth Anniversary of the Third Programme’. Listener, Vol. 46, No. 1179, 4 October 1951, pp. 539-541. Broadcast talk (see F3a(135) ). See also C429.
(C431) ‘The Chapel of Kings’ [sic]. Listener, Vol. 47, No. 1213, 29 May 1952, pp. 885, 887. Review of ‘The Windows of King’s College Chapel’, by Kenneth Harrison.
(C433) ‘The Legacy of Samuel Butler’. Listener, Vol. 47, No 1215, 12 June 1952, pp. 955-956. Broadcast talk (see F3a(136) ).
(C434) ‘Tributes to Sir Desmond MacCarthy’, 2. Listener, Vol. 47, No. 1217, 26 June 1952, p. 1031. ‘From talks in the Home Service’ (see F3a(137) ), the other contributors being Sir Max Beerbohm, V.S. Pritchett, Philip Hope-Wallace and C.V. Wedgwood. Reprinted as: ‘Desmond MacCarthy’, Mill House Press, 1952. (see A30).
(C436) ‘The Possessed’. Listener, Vol. 48, No. 1232m 9 October 1952, pp. 595, 597. Review of ‘The Devils of Loudun’, by Aldous Huxley. Reprinted: ‘Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage’, edited by Donald Watt, London & Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1975], pp. 380-382.
(C439) ‘Lear in India’. Listener, Vol. 49, No. 1256, 26 March 1953, p. 519. Review of ‘Edward Lear’s Indian Journal: Water-colours and Extracts’, edited by Ray Murphy.
(C440) ‘Lélia: The Life of George Sand’. Listener, Vol. 49, No. 1268, 18 June 1953, p. 1015. Letter on the review of ‘Lélia: The Life of George Sand’, by André Maurois, in the issue of 11 June, p 979.
(C441) ‘The Art and Architecture of India’. Listener, Vol. 50, No. 1280, 10 September 1953, pp. 419-421. Broadcast talk on ‘The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain’, by Benjamin Rowland (see F3a(138) ).
(C446) ‘Tidying India’. Listener, Vol. 51, No. 1306, 11 March 1954, pp. 435-436. Review of ‘My Public Life’, by Sir Mirza Ismail.
(C449) ‘Revolution at Bayreuth’. Listener, Vol. 52, No. 1340, 4 November 1954, pp. 755-757. Broadcast talk (see F3a(139) ). Reprinted: ‘Center’, Vol. 2, February 1955, pp. 2-6. ‘From the Third Programme: A Ten-year’s Anthology’, edited by John Morris, London, Nonesuch Press, 1956.
(C450) ‘The Law and Obscenity’. Listener, Vol. 52, Nos. 1341, 1347, 11 November and 23 December 1954, pp. 813, 1117. Letters.
(C451) ‘The World Mountain’. Listener, Vol. 52, No. 1344, 2 December 1954, pp. 977-978. Review of ‘The Art of India’, by Stella Kramrisch.
(C465) ‘A Great Humanist: E.M. Forster on Goldsworthy Lowes-Dickinson’. Listener, Vol. 56, No. 1437, 11 October 1956, pp. 545-547. Broadcast talk given on 5 October as an introduction to a shortened version of Dickinson’s ‘A Modern Symposium’ broadcast on 6 October (see F3a(142) ).
(C470) ‘Tourism v. Thuggism’. Listener, Vol. 57, No. 1451, 17 January 1957, p. 124. Review of ‘Portrait of Greece’, by Lord Kinross. Also issued separately as an offprint (see 35).