David Franklin: ...I Sometimes Think I Don't Really Belong

Overview

'The only thing worth having,' David Franklin asserts, 'is something you've worked to get and can take pride in.' Words and music have been the cornerstones of Franklin's life and on these he built two brilliant careers, first as an opera singer and then as a broadcaster. Two formal institutions, Cambridge and Glyndebourne, formed the man and fashioned his attitudes - a respect for fine sounds and a passionate belief in proud, old-fashioned things like dignity and manners; but the very disciplines he learned there have made him intolerant of the modern world 'with its greed for material things the easy way.'