George Barnes’s “W. B. Yeats and Broadcasting” 1940

Abstract

Sir George Barnes joined the BBC as Talks Producer in 1935. He later became Director of Talks Programmes, then Head of the old Third Programme. In 1950 he became Director of BBC Television and was knighted in 1953 at Lime Grove itself. He died in 1960. Some account of him is given by Geoffrey Grigson in his Recollections mainly of writers & artists (London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1984), which also contains a couple of anecdotes about W. B. Yeats. “William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac, A Correspondence: 1916–1938” a Ph.D. thesis for Rice University, 1981, by Diana Potcat Hobby, contains several letters about Barnes and his plans for Yeats’s broadcasts.