He spent several years hosting a books programme on Irish radio and in 1975 took up teaching again, this time at Carysfort College, a Catholic teacher-training college in Dublin.
What about a book programme.
Should BBC television not have a book programme.
Should a channel with the word Arts in its title not have a book programme?
Remarks about children's books made by Martin Amis on the BBC's new book programme Faulks on Fiction, broadcast this week, have caused anger and offence among children's writers.
This structural difficulty explains the lack of any dedicated theatre or books programmes on British TV, a frequent cause of lament from fans of those arts.
He added that Miller was "perhaps the last of the great Bloomsbury men... Of course, there are brilliant writers and editors now, but they live in a world where the squeeze on literary values and on books programmes, on high culture and carefulness, is fearsome and degrading.
What on earth is wrong with a proper, fully fledged book programme?
He went on to conduct The Book Programme (1974-80), and buzzed around the world for Robinson's Travels (1977-79).
