TCG Letter #2133

Tolkien sends a revised script for the Beowulf broadcast. He mentions that one of his children has "suddenly developed a bad heart" and he has been dealing with doctors at the house.^{Christopher Tolkien had a bad heart and would spend much of the year in bed resting.[1]}

Hammond and Scull note in Chronology, p. 226 that Tolkien "presumably" records his talk which is broadcast at 10.45pm as part of the Poetry Will Out: Studies in National Inspiration and Characteristic Forms series of talks given on the BBC. It is entitled Anglo-Saxon Verse.