‘Fascinating’ Tippett letter reveals composer changed by prison

Exclusive: Pacifist composer's intimate 1943 jail letter best Tippett discovery for 50 years'

He was one of the greatest British composers of the 20th century and a staunch pacifist who spent two months in Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector to the second world war.

Now a previously unpublished letter written by Sir Michael Tippett in 1943 from his prison cell has been discovered and donated to the British Library.