Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-x

Part One - Early Years, 93–955

pp 1-2

1 - Childhood

pp 3-14

2 - A Progressive Education

pp 15-36

3 - Boyhood Turns Sour

pp 37-52

4 - National Service

pp 53-72

5 - Cambridge

pp 73-92

6 - L’Année Française

pp 93-104

Part Two - Finding My Feet at the BBC, 955– 967

pp 105-106

7 - The BBC’s New Recruit

pp 107-122

8 - Lime Grove: The Promised Land

pp 123-154

9 - Moving Up the Ladder

pp 155-174

10 - New Programmes and Foreign Fields

pp 175-202

11 - Head of Music and Arts (HMAP Tel)

pp 203-222

12 - Wooing the Giants

pp 223-242

Part Three - Going It Alone, 967–975

pp 243-244

13 - LWT: Not Such a Brave New World

pp 245-264

14 - The Age of Aquarius, 1970–1975

pp 265-290

15 - 1970: Bernstein’s Annus Mirabilis

pp 291-316

Part Four - In and Out at the BBC, 975–990

pp 317-318

16 - In Make-Up or Munich

pp 319-346

17 - Discovering My Métier

pp 347-366

18 - Hooray for Hollywood

pp 367-396

19 - On the Musical Merry-Go-Round

pp 397-416

20 - Hitting My Stride

pp 417-440

21 - Bernstein’s Endgame, 1989–1990

pp 441-456

Part Five - Changing Course, 990–2001

pp 457-458

22 - A Writer in New York, 1990–1994

pp 459-474