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A programme about W.B Yeats from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual outline...
From the first days of recording the voices of poets reading their own work have been thought worthy of permanent record. This CD looks back at the earliest English-language poets whose voices have survived,...
By any standards a remarkable poet, the fact that she lived in an age when poets were supposed to be men and any ideas contrary to the norm were outrages in the eyes of society, Emily Dickinson’s work is...
The term ‘Lake poets’ was first used in the August 1817 ‘Edinburgh Review’ to describe William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in a derogatory manner. History now regards the...
Portrait of French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert by his brother Pierre, featuring interviews with Marcel Duhamel, Raymond Bussières, Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin and Arletty, together with excerpts...
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a key figure in the English Romantic movement. His ideas about language revolutionised modern definitions of poetry and his love of nature helped to shape the modern...
A celebration of the heritage and landscape of Dartmoor through poetry, narration, music and cinematography. Fifteen newly commissioned poems from members of the public, filmed on the moor in the locations...
A television dramatisation of the life of George Gordon Byron in two parts.
Audio extracts from a radio interview with Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth, originally broadcast as a Meridian Feature on 4/10/1999, In the extract Vikram Seth talks about: his view of himself as a...
Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with the English poet, journalist and architectural critic John Betjeman. Poet Laureate in 1972, Betjeman’s popular verse celebrated architecture, but concentrated...
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