Radio review

Tennessee waltz was all steps and no tune

Like many feted artists, Tennessee Williams died in a state of advanced pickledness.

Worse again, he was alone and critically unappreciated at the time, an undignified fate for a man who had spent most of his career being praised to the heavens by reviewers and sycophants alike.

The intervening 28 years have seen him recast as an American Oscar Wilde, though realistically he doesn’t close ...