Richard S. Lambert

Who was Richard S. Lambert?

Richard Stanton Lambert was a biographer, popular historian and broadcaster. He was also the founding editor of The Listener and an employee of the BBC and CBC. His books mainly concern history and biography but he also wrote about crime, travel, art, radio, film and propaganda. In the book Ariel and All His Quality he wrote about his time with the BBC in its formative years. His book Propaganda, published in 1939, was a timely investigation of a subject already made familiar during World War I.