Bernard Levin
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Henry Bernard Levin was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarshi
Levin c. 1980
Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex
Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter (1871), borrowed by Levin as nicknames for Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson; illustration by John Tenniel
Levin interviewing the Wagnerian bass Martti Talvela for the BBC in 1972
William Edgar Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard, was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1946 to 1958, known for his strict sentencing and mostly conservative views despite being the first Lord Chief Justi
Bernard Levin
…by the British authorities, to supporting publication of the banned novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and denunciation of the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard. The last led to a secret meeting of more than 20 senior judges to see whether Levin could be prosecuted for criminal libel; there was no prosecution…
Rayner Goddard