Synopsis
Tonight's anthology launches the week, and includes historic archive film featuring such as T S Eliot, W H Auden and Robert Graves. "These clips will be linked and commented on by today's poets," says May. "The living speakingto the dead."
Further Information
Other Archive resources
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) | 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.