ABSTRACT
In 1949 Swingler begins an affair with the novelist Penelope Dimont; their daughter Deborah is born. He starts broadcasting for the BBC and teaching in adult education. He resigns as editor of Our Time. He attends the 1949 Paris Peace Congress. After several years of estrangement, he and Geraldine are reconciled. Swingler writes Fantasy Fair with Christian Darnton for the Festival of Britain opera competition; the opera is ‘disqualified’ before the judges see it. MI5 prevent Swingler from working full-time at the BBC as part of the anti-Communist witch-hunt. His adult education classes are ‘investigated’ and closed. Swingler and Jack Lindsay launch the short-lived magazines Arena and Circus. Their Key Poets series is attacked as ‘bohemian’ inside CP. He publishes his last collection The God in the Cave.
