Reprinted from "A Clockwork Orange: 50th Anniversary Edition,
the Restored Text" by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell.
Introduction and notes copyright 2012 by Andrew Biswell. With
the permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.  In
1994, less than a year after Anthony Burgess had died at the age
of seventy-six, BBC Scotland commissioned the novelist William
Boyd to write a radio play in celebration of his life and work.
This was broadcast during the Edinburgh Festival on 21 August
1994, along with a concert performance of Burgess’s music and a
recording of his Glasgow Overture. The programme was called "An
Airful of Burgess", with the actor John Sessions playing the
parts of both Burgess and his fictional alter ego, the poet F.
X. Enderby. On the same day, the Sunday Times ran a front-page
story about the same radio play under the headline ‘BBC in Row
Over Festival Play’s Violent Rape Scene’. The newspaper claimed
that the broadcast would feature ‘a live re-enactment of a rape
scene base