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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...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 3 - David Walliams performs ‘Honour pricks me on, but how if honour...
Television documentary series in which Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks to public figures about their favourite poetry and poets. In this episode former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, discusses...
Third in a series of programmes on the art of poetry produced by literary historian J. Isaacs. Samples of Shakespeare’s ‘poetic art’ are read by Douglas Leach.
16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...
Radio broadcast. Lewis Nkose interviews the South African poet Raymond Kunene about the influence of Shakespeare on African poets.
BBC Radio 4’s current affairs programme presented by John Humphreys and James Naughtie. This edition features Ian McMillan’s poem, ‘Shakespeare rules Britain’, written specially for the part of the...
Schools radio broadcast on Shakespeare’s poetry. Part of a series on English poets and poetry planned by Mary Somerville and written by Stephen Potter.
Nowhere is Dylan Thomas’s language more rich and fantastic than in his best-known work, Under Milk Wood. He was also a popular radio entertainer and the BBC Archives contain a wealth of material featuring...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, Professor/poet Phillis Levin, and Professor Jonathan Bate discuss the Sonnet and its poetic relevance. What is it about the Sonnet...
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