Complex sentence: Britten told Ford that he had "for some months or a year vaguely been thinking of doing something with the (Chester) miracle plays", and agreed to write an opera for Associated Rediffusion's 1958 summer term of school programmes.
Split into simpler sentences: Britten told Ford that he had "for some months or a year vaguely been thinking of doing something with the (Chester) miracle plays". Following the meeting Britten agreed to write an opera for Associated Rediffusion's 1958 summer term of school programmes.