Synopsis
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) | 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.
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.