Synopsis
Adam Low returns to the poet and his work 35 years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, to reveal how Auden's poetry helps us to understand the tumultuous 21st century.
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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.
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Tim Strangleman discusses his study into work identity and 'loss': how older railway workers have reacted to change in their industry.