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  • Boris Ford commissioned Benjamin Britten to write the children's opera Noye's Fludde when he was Head of Schools Broadcasting for Independent Television. His distinguished career has included a variety of professional and academic posts. He was general editor of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature and The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain and edited the Universities Quarterly from 1955 to 1986.
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