Bernard Levin

Society

My Secret Dread

• 20 November 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 30 September 1966 Levin (1928-2004) wrote only rarely for the New Statesman; he is most closely associated with the Times, which he joined five years after this appeared. In 1966 he was probably best known for his provocative interviews on That Was The Week That Was, though he was also the Daily Mail theatre critic – a job which surely carried the risk of encountering the odd spider. By the way, the verse at the end (I looked it up) is from G K Chesterton. Selected by Brian Cathcart