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Dilys Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (661 words) |
 | Elizabeth Dilys Powell (20 July 1901 – 3 June 1995) was a British journalist and author who became the best known film critic of her generation and the next. |
| On her return to Britain Powell was appointed film critic on the Sunday Times and in 1941 she found war work with a Greek connection in the Political Warfare Executive, which oversaw Britain's propaganda in occupied Europe. |
| Powell was one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority (ITA) from 1954, despite initial concerns about her possible conflicts of interest (she wrote for a newspaper that was backing one of the ITV franchises, but their bid was eventually withdrawn). |
| An affair of the Heart - Dilys Powell (348 words) |
| Dilys Powell lived in Greece before WWII and had a deep devotion to the country. |
| It relates Powell's experiences of Greece and the Greek psyche from as long ago as 1930-33 when her husband, Humphrey Payne, led an archeological dig in Heraion of Perachora, an area of mainland Greece north of the Corinth Canal. |
| Dilys Powell's description of being in Greece and living among Greeks, away from the tourist hotspots and no doubt lacking the modern accoutrements such as spray on mosquito repellent and mobile phones is, in my opinion, unbeatable and unrepeatable. |
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