William Radice is a poet, writer and translator.He is the senior lecturer in Bengali in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.His research area is in Bengali language and literature.He has translated several Bengali works, and works by Rabindranath Tagore and Michael Madhusudan Dutt. He adapted the text by Rabindranath Tagore as an opera libretto, which was set to music by Param Vir as . He wrote the libretto for a children's opera Chincha-Chancha Cooroo or The Weaver's Wedding with music by Bernard Hughes. His mother was the editor and translator Betty Radice.