Why Was Postscripts Cancelled?

The full story is more complicated. Priestley's talks worried certain politicians and journalists, but the decision to end the first series of Postscripts appears to have been his: he was tired, and felt the War had moved into a different phase, with less imminent threat of invasion.

Why was JB Priestley's Postscripts Cancelled?

During the Second World War he broadcast a massively popular weekly radio programme which was attacked by the Conservatives as being too left-wing. The programme was eventually cancelled by the BBC for being too critical of the Government. He continued to write into the 1970s, and died in 1984.

Did JB Priestley fight in ww2?

During World War 2, Priestley achieved the peak of his fame and influence in his BBC “Postscripts” broadcasts (1940), in which he inspired many in difficult times by reflecting on the beauty of the English landscape, the gallant little ships at Dunkirk, and a steaming pie in a shop window defying the bombers.