BBC Radio has published a moving feature on the life and death of Stanley Bate narrated by the omniscient English journalist and historian Simon Heffer, whose biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams was published in 2000. Heffer’s fascinating articles on English music appearing in the Daily Telegraph include “It’s Time Programmers Got More Adventurous with British Music’s Little-Known Masterpieces” (10 December 2019) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/time-programmers-got-adventurous-british-musics-little-known/
