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Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy,
chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern
Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not
only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning
in to the BBC''s live radio broadcast. But as he approaches the end
of his assault, the speech suddenly dissolves into incoherence when
he stumbles over a name - a name he normally takes such pains to
avoid - that takes him back forty years to a special time and a
special place. Summer in February is a disturbing and moving
re-creation of a celebrated Edwardian artistic community enjoying
the last days of a golden age soon to be shattered by war. As
resonant and understated as The Go-Between, it is a love story of
beauty, deprivation and tragedy.
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Jonathan Smith was educated at St John''s College Cambridge and
has subsequently been a schoomaster in Scotland, Australia and
Tonbridge. He has also established a reputation as a distinguished
radio dramatist.
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