FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.

  • Thanks for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium

    Thanks for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium

    A message from John E Cooper, Margaret E Cooper and Simon H King:  Thank you for your encouragement and support for the Maxwell Knight Symposium (MKS). The day went well and the audience participation and encouragement was fantastic and we hope you enjoyed it. If you couldn’t attend the event, you can get a good feel for the…

  • Desert Island Discs: Roy Plomley’s castaway is naturalist Maxwell Knight

    Desert Island Discs: Roy Plomley’s castaway is naturalist Maxwell Knight

    On Monday 28 June 1965 at 13:10 on the BBC Home Service, Maxwell Knight was Roy Plomley’s castaway on Desert Island Discs and his favourite track was The Waiter, the Porter and the Upstairs Maid by Bing Crosby & Mary Martin. His favourite book: The Cambridge Natural History  Luxury: Microscope Unfortunately, this episode is not currently available on BBC…

  • M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature

    M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature

    During the 1960s Maxwell Knight – the real-life “M” – was working on a manuscript entitled The Frightened Face of Nature, snatching brief moments to record his thoughts on how man had treated nature so unfairly for the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The manuscript documented Knight’s greatest fears that, time was running…