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This tape presents a collection of U.A. Fanthorpe’s work, including "Not My Best Work", "Rising Damp", "Women Laughing" and "Dear Dr Lee". It is read by the author and Rosie Bailey.
A National Sound Archive recording of two Afro-Caribbean writers, Grace Nichols and Samuel Selvon. Both writers explore different aspects of Black experience through a wide range of language-forms, including...
A compilation of Sir John Betjeman’s poetry chosen from over thirty years of radio and television programmes. Includes the very best of Sir John Betjeman’s performances and is a fitting tribute to the...
A series of John Betjeman’s poems read by himself with musical accompaniment by Jim Parker. The musical style varies from 1920’s pastiche on ‘Agricultural Caress’ to flute and strings on ‘Age and...
W.H. Auden reads a personal selection of 18 poems from his work, covering almost two decades. The recording features "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", "In Praise of Limestone", "The Capital", "School Children", "As...
TS Eliot reads some of his most celebrated poems, including ‘The Wasteland’. In this poem, Eliot expresses his view that the Western city had become a stale and sterile desert. In ‘The Four...
Presented by Sir John Betjeman, this is a nostalgic tribute to the people and places around the Metropolitan Line of the 1920s, and the change from the idyllic world of Betjeman’s youth into the sprawl of...
One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. A discussion between T. Walker (poet) and J. Wain of the University of Oxford
Laurence Lerner of Sussex University talks about the background of four poets and poems - T. S. Eliot "Prelude"; W. H. Auden "The Shield of Achilles"; W. B. Yeats "Lapis Lazuli"; Wallace Stevens "Of Heaven...
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