| Administrative History | Patric Thomas Dickinson, 1914-1994, was born in Nasirabad, India and studied at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Between 1936 and 1939 he was a schoolmaster and in the first year of the war, he served with the Artists' Rifles before working with the BBC. He was renowned as a translator into English of the Greek and Latin Classics as well as being a playwright and poet in his own right. He was very productive during his time working for the BBC from 1942-1948, most notably his broadcasts for the Third Programme which later went on to become Radio 3. In 1973 he received the Cholmondeley Award alongside Philip Larkin. |