English File | The Poetry of Passion

Duration: 28'34''

Synopsis

A late night lonely hearts chat show where the guests are poets who Lily Savage tries to match with love of their lives. Aimed at students studying GCSE English.

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Other Archive resources
BBC Two | 2003

Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | 05: Love in a Life

Actors Prunella Scales , Christopher Lee and Matthew Macfadyen appear in the last of the series, reading poems by Betjeman, RS Thomas and Yeats that celebrate a love expected to last a lifetime and those that help with survival when it all goes wrong.
BBC Two | 2003

Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | 04: Grass is Greener

Prunella Scales recites Moyra Donaldson's Infidelities, Amanda Holden reflects on Loss by Wendy Cope, and Damian Lewis reads Jealousy by Rupert Brooke.