Synopsis
Marking the centenary of arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century in the English language after TS Eliot, Roger McGough introduces requests for works by WH Auden. Featuring 1) As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden. Read by W.H. Auden; 2) Funeral Blues 'Stop all the Clocks' from Twelve Songs by W.H. Auden. Read by Douglas Hodge; 3) Stop all the Cars by Roger McGough. Read by Roger McGough; 4) Night-Mail by W.H. Auden. Read by W.H. Auden (recording taken from Night Mail - The GPO Story); 5) The Composer by W.H. Auden. Read by Douglas Hodge; 6) September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden. Read by Douglas Hodge; 7) In Praise of Limestone (extracts) by W.H. Auden. Read by W.H. Auden (archive from Poetry International 1970); 8) The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden. Read by Douglas Hodge; 9) In Memory of W.B. Yeats (extract) by W.H. Auden. Read by Douglas Hodge.
Alan Johnson: The Post Office and Me | WH Auden's "Night Mail"
Alan Johnson MP (and former postman) takes a ride on a Travelling Post Office - one of the mail-sorting trains that used to criss-cross the nation through the night and that were immortalised in the film Night Mail.
Thinking Allowed | Work identity on the railway
Tim Strangleman discusses his study into work identity and 'loss': how older railway workers have reacted to change in their industry.