Synopsis
Prunella Scales recites Moyra Donaldson's Infidelities, Amanda Holden reflects on Loss by Wendy Cope, and Damian Lewis reads Jealousy by Rupert Brooke.
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.
Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | 03: Talking in Bed
Tonight, observations of parenthood, including Child by Sylvia Plath , and fraught familial relationships, as in Father-in-Law by Paul Engle.