to step into the small, intimate space that joined the everyday world to the ecclesiastical, to read what had apparently been left there by a parishioner.Casting a humorous - if cynical - eye on the vagaries and vanities of clergy and parishioners alike, albeit in his praise of God, Betjeman's poems would have brought some light relief to an otherwise very serious programme.
from Frieda Hughes: The Times: Hidden Betjeman
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