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Philip Hope-Wallace

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called him "a critic of the arts as wise and searching as anyone in his time … all his work was fuelled by an informed pleasure that his attractively languid personality never concealed … above all he was consistently readable."
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on 30 March 1974. The programme was not archived by the BBC, but an unofficial tape copy was among a collection of over 90 episodes discovered by an amateur researcher and placed online in 2022. In 1975 he was appointed
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A selection of his writings for the publications noted above, as well as several other British periodicals including the
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throughout the Second World War, his career was wholly in arts journalism in newspapers, magazines and in broadcasting.
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Hope-Wallace was born in London, the third and youngest child and only son of Charles Nugent Hope-Wallace,
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during the Second World War. After the war he returned to journalism, writing on music and theatre for
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as a special correspondent. At first he covered song recitals, and graduated to opera.
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 2357-2358
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Hope-Wallace was unmarried. He died in London at the age of 67. The obituarist in
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Unfit for military service, Hope-Wallace worked at the
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CBE
The Manchester Guardian
Air Ministry
MBE
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Madras Army
Charles Ramsay Bethune
John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath
Charterhouse School
Balliol College, Oxford
Great Depression
Fécamp
Gas Light and Coke Company
The Times
Air Ministry
The Daily Telegraph
The Manchester Guardian
The Gramophone
Opera
BBC
BBC Radio
Desert Island Discs
CBE
New Statesman
Opera
Punch
The Spectator
Vogue

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