My Life in Verse | 01: Shelia Hancock

Duration: 59'00''

Synopsis

Much loved actress and memoirist Sheila Hancock sets out to explore how her love for poetry has become a lifeline since the death of her husband John Thaw in 2002.

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My Life in Verse | 01: Shelia Hancock

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2009 | 58'46''

Famous faces explore their love of poetry. Malorie Blackman explains how poems have sustained her at the best and worst times, and fi...

My Life in Verse | 01: Shelia Hancock

My Life in Verse | 01: Shelia Hancock

2009 | 59'00''

Much loved actress and memoirist Sheila Hancock sets out to explore how her love for poetry has become a lifeline since the death of he...

My Life in Verse | 02: Robert Webb

My Life in Verse | 02: Robert Webb

2009 | 59'13''

Robert Webb returns to his Lincolnshire classroom and visits Paris on a journey to find out more about the poem The Love Song of J Alfred ...

My Life in Verse | 03: Cerys Matthews

My Life in Verse | 03: Cerys Matthews

2009 | 59'17''

In a personal journey across the British Isles, Cerys Matthews explores the legacy of Celtic poetry, from early Welsh bards to the writ...

My Life in Verse | 04: Malorie Blackman

My Life in Verse | 04: Malorie Blackman

2009 | 58'46''

Famous faces explore their love of poetry. Malorie Blackman explains how poems have sustained her at the best and worst times, and fi...
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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.