Sir John Betjeman

A First Class Collection

Release date August 07, 2006

Tracklist

1
Introduction, Part 1
2:41
2:41
2
Introduction, Part 2
3:43
3:43
3
Introduction, Part 3
3:05
3:05
4
Introduction, Part 4
4:20
4:20
5
Introduction, Part 5
3:06
3:06
6
Introduction, Part 6
1:50
1:50
7
Indoor Games Near Newbury
3:38
3:38
8
Station Syren
1:15
1:15
9
Thoughts on ‘The Diary of a Nobody’
1:31
1:31
10
Executive
1:49
1:49
11
Business Girls
2:21
2:21
12
Parliament Hill Fields
1:59
1:59
13
The City
1:11
1:11
14
Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
2:20
2:20
15
Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
3:06
3:06
16
Seaside Golf
1:10
1:10
17
Trebetherick
3:16
3:16
18
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
1:36
1:36
19
For Nineteenth-Century Burials
0:44
0:44
20
Christmas
2:40
2:40
21
Death of King George V
1:06
1:06
22
Hymn
1:26
1:26
23
Our Padre
1:10
1:10
24
Harvest Hymn
1:21
1:21
25
Middlesex
1:56
1:56
26
The Olympic Girl
1:50
1:50
27
In the Public Gardens
1:10
1:10
28
Senex
1:24
1:24
29
Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden
1:58
1:58
30
In a Bath Teashop
0:29
0:29
31
The Cockney Amorist
1:15
1:15
32
An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
1:10
1:10
33
A Shropshire Lad
1:28
1:28
34
Guilt
1:36
1:36
35
House of Rest
2:04
2:04
36
Archibald
2:30
2:30
37
Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus Stop
1:30
1:30
38
A Child Ill
1:13
1:13
39
Felixstowe, or the Last of Her Order
2:28
2:28
40
Myfanwy
41
Hunter Trials
42
County and Slough
43
Meditation on the A30
44
The Varsity Students Rag
3:28
3:28
45
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
4:27
4:27
46
On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
47
A Russell Flint
3:10
3:10
48
The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
49
Late-Flowering Lust
2:57
2:57
50
Good-bye
51
Death in Leamington
2:58
2:58
52
Sun and Fun
3:01
3:01
53
Uffington
54
The Hon. Sec.
55
Lenten Thoughts on High Anglican
56
Diary of a Church Mouse
57
Wantage Bells
58
The Planster’s Vision
59
Bristol
60
Westgate-on-Sea
61
Dilton Marsh Halt
62
Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
63
Great Central Railway: Sheffield Victoria to Banbury
64
The Metropolitan Railway
65
Harrow on the Hill
66
Group Life: Letchworth
67
False Security
68
The Costa Blanca
69
Caprice
70
A Subaltern’s Love Song
71
Agricultural Caress
3:22
3:22
72
In Westminster Abbey
73
Devonshire Street W.I.
74
Preface to ‘High and Low’
75
The Last Laugh
76
Reproof Deserved or After the Lecture