Talk:John Macmurray

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Here's a link to an interesting article about John Macmurray by Samuel Brittan (of the Financial Times) that was published in the New Statesman in February 1997 http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4320_v126/ai_19358343/pg_2

Place of birth[edit]

Confusing. Maxwellton is probably the one in Kirkcudbrightshire. Maxwelton might be near Dumfries, instead. Some sources seem to be double-l and imply the latter, though. Charles Matthews 19:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

All the biographical sources I've seen use this spelling but also indicate it's the one in Kirkcudbrightshire, either by saying so explicitly or by situating it in far southwest Scotland or saying it's near Dumfries. John Costello's biography has "Maxwellton, Kirkcudbrightshire" on page 19 and "Maxweltown near Dumfries" on page 20! I'm a new editor planning to do some work on this article so I wonder - would it be proper to go ahead and change the place name in the article to Maxwelltown? HazelAB (talk) 15:44, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Broadcasting[edit]

The text says (25 July 2013)'He was well known in Britain before World War II for his broadcasts on philosophy on the BBC Third Programme' but the Third Programme did not exist before the second World War (it began in 1946). It is true that he did a lot of broadcasting for the BBC before the Second World War (and during the war), some of it for overseas listeners. Whether he was 'well known' for these broadcasts is another matter. He might have been well known, but the simple fact of him broadcasting didn't necessarily make him well known. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.237.232 (talk) 10:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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