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The DVD features photographs of Clare countryside by Peter Moyse and includes selected readings of Clare’s poetry and prose. Also included are reflections on Clare’s life by interviews with poet, author...
Looks at 18th-century landscape paintings and at poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as providing a metaphor for...
Al Alvarez interviews Stephen Spender on his own work and ideas about poetry, as well as his close friendship with W H Auden. The discussion also considers general issues such as the poet’s place in...
Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...
A wax cylinder recording of Tennyson made in 1888 under the direction of Thomas Edison himself, who sent a representative to England to record the poet four years before Tennyson’s death in 1892. Tennyson...
Confucius was not exactly an author in the way that other writers in the series are. His ideas however, expressed in his Analects (reported sayings), have been the backbone of the Chinese psyche ever since...
Desmond Hawkins takes Hardy’s description of himself as "a time-torn man" as the starting point for this portrait in which he shows how Hardy’s work reflected the great changes that were taking place in...
A compilation of 7 short films by the Orcadian filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait, a forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late 20th century.. Over the course of 36 years she produced over 30...
Based on the ideas of Susan Sontag as described in her book ‘Illness as Metaphor’, the programme explores the impact of AIDS on contemporary society, comparing it to previous plagues which aroused...
'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...
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