I’m putting this here so I can find it again and as a reminder.
I have always been a Burton fan from the moment I understood that the voice of the narrator on Jeff Wayne’s brilliant musical version of War of the Worlds was his. Listening to Bragg’s revealing Radio 4 documentary on Burton’s diaries, the following passage by a commentator on Burton, who always wanted to be a writer and academic, went right under my guard and thumped me in the gut…
“…although he had a great desire to write something of significance, a book, he never creates the space in his life and has the energy to do that properly…”
Sobering.