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Ted Hughes was one of the major poets of his generation. His older brother Gerald Hughes wrote a memoir of their relationship called ‘Ted and I’. The two brothers were close all their lives. This DVD is...
Documentary about the First World War poets, including Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and A.E.Housman.
2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...
This documentary commemorates the 100th birthday of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-Lithuanian poet. Famous cultural figures, friends, and family retrace the life and work of this...
A collection of recordings made over many years. The sometimes indistinct words in this rare audio collection are accompanied by text for each of the 23 selections. The booklet also includes a substantial...
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 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...
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