Ivor Brown

British journalist and man of lettersWikipedia

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Sep 30, 2026

Sep 30 · 2 Mentions

James HarveyHOST

54:15

The Sunday Times critic doubted whether Mr. Coward's tunes are as good as they used to be.

James HarveyHOST

54:21

And Ivor Brown from The Sketch said that Coward was now too much part of the establishment to criticise it and to satirise it.

James HarveyHOST

54:29

So it sort of lost some of the humour of some of his earlier pieces.

James HarveyHOST

54:33

Okay.

Julie GamblingHOST

54:35

was really funny.

Julie GamblingHOST

54:36

Duly disagrees.

James HarveyHOST

54:38

You can have a word with Ivor Brown if you like that.

James HarveyHOST

54:41

But one of the musical's biggest critics was Coward himself.