Last Lesson of the Afternoon - Softcover

With his schoolboy humour and distinctive, cheerful voice, Johnners was a friend to millions of radio listeners and when he died in 1994 at the age of 81, the Daily Telegraph described him as the greatest natural broadcaster of them all. Vorn in 1912, Brian had an idyllic childhood in Hertfordshire until he was ten years old, when his father drowned on a seaside holiday. After going to Eton and Oxford he wanted to be an actor, but was persuaded to join the family coffee business in the City. When war broke out he served with the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards in Normandy and was awarded the Military Cross. After being demobbed Brian joined the BBC in January 1946.

Campbell MacKay is teaching his last class, on Milton's "Lycidas", before an early retirement forced by his revulsion for modern teaching methods. As MacKay addresses the class, he tells the story of his own life as a willing slave to literature, and digresses into his early experiences.