Richard Holloway On October 7, 1948, the BBC Third Programme broadcast a discussion on the role of the writer in society. One of the participants was Graham Greene. Greene believed that to artists the kindness of the state was more dangerous than its indifference. He pointed out that in the Soviet Union artists belonged to a privileged class, but the state had asked in return that they should cease to be artists. He said this danger did not only exist in totalitarian countries. The bourgeois state, too, had its compromising gifts to offer artists.
Richard Holloway On October 7, 1948, the BBC Third Programme broadcast a discussion on the role of the writer in society. One of the participants was Graham Greene. Greene believed that to artists the kindness of the state was more dangerous than its indifference.
