"TS Eliot" (27 results)

TS Eliot: Into ‘The Waste Land’

TS Eliot: Into ‘The Waste Land’

The Waste Land | BBC Two | 2022 | 1'19'20''

An exploration of TS Eliot's ''The Waste Land'', in its centenary year, that for the first time uncovers the personal story behin...

The Poetry of History | S01E04: TS Eliot and the Blitz

The Poetry of History | S01E04: TS Eliot and the Blitz

Radio 4 Extra | 2006 | 27'49''

Jonathan Bate investigates how the Blitz motivated TS Eliot's Four Quartets. How does history influence poetry?

Omnibus | The Confessions of Marian Evans: A Portrait of George Eliot

Omnibus | The Confessions of Marian Evans: A Portrait of George Eliot

Silas Marner | BBC One | 1969 | 1'13'56''

Marian Evans became world famous in 1859 at the age of 39 as George Eliot, the author of ''Adam Bede''....

Novels That Shaped Our World | George Eliot

Novels That Shaped Our World | George Eliot

Middlemarch | BBC Two | 2019 | 2'35''

An introduction to 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and a discussion of why women authors have so often used pseudo...

George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters | 04: Silas Marner

George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters | 04: Silas Marner

Silas Marner | BBC Radio 4 | 2019 | 13'46''

George Eliot's real life explored through five of her fictional characters. Kathryn Hughes hears from writer Davi...

Great Poets in Their Own Words | The Waste Land’ by T. S. Eliot

Great Poets in Their Own Words | The Waste Land’ by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land | BBC Four | 2014 | 4'11''

A reading and analysis of T. S. Eliot's modernist poem 'The Waste Land'.

My Life in Verse | The complexity of T. S. Eliot

My Life in Verse | The complexity of T. S. Eliot

BBC Two | 2009 | 3'04''

Robert Webb discusses the complexities of T. S. Eliot's poetry with an old teacher.

Silas Marner (1964)

Silas Marner (1964)

Silas Marner | BBC One | 1964 | 25'40''

First of six of this adaptation of the novel by George Eliot. After plans have been made for a wedding, a crime is discovered.

The Mill on the Floss (1979)

The Mill on the Floss (1979)

The Mill on the Floss | BBC One | 1978 | 25'40''

Eight part adaptation of the novel by George Eliot. Maggie Tulliver (Georgia Slowe) the miller's daughter, defies her embittered brother & shock...

Arena | Pseudonym

Arena | Pseudonym

Middlemarch | BBC Four | 2019 | 1'34''

A discussion of Mary Anne Evans' choice to use the pseudonym George Eliot.

Poetry Please | WH Auden

Poetry Please | WH Auden

BBC Radio 4 | 2007 | 27'41''

Marking the centenary of arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century in the English language after TS Eliot, Roger McGough introduces ...

Classic Serial | 01: Silas Marner (2011)

Classic Serial | 01: Silas Marner (2011)

Silas Marner | BBC Radio 4 | 2011 | 56'54''

First published in 1861, George Eliot's novel dramatised for radio by Richard Cameron, directed by Pauline Harris and starring Georg...

Middlemarch (1994)

Middlemarch (1994)

Middlemarch | BBC Two | 1994 | 1'20'10''

First of a six part adaptation by Andrew Davies of George Eliot's epic saga. Dr Tertius Lydgate is put in charge of the fever hospital in Middlemarch. Dor...

Silas Marner (2009)

Silas Marner (2009)

Silas Marner | BBC Radio 7 | 2009 | 53'26''

The classic tale of a man wrongly accused of theft, starring Michael Williams (in his last radio performance) and Jenny Agutter.

Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (1985)

Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (1985)

Silas Marner | BBC One | 1985 | 1'30'25''

Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter and Patrick Ryecart star in dramatisation of George Eliot's novel about a lonely weaver whose life cha...

The Mill on the Floss (1997)

The Mill on the Floss (1997)

The Mill on the Floss | BBC One | 1997 | 1'56'18''

Maggie Tulliver is torn between the two men in her life and struggles between duty and desire. If she is true to her heart she will betray those...

Drama on 3 | He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices

Drama on 3 | He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices

The Waste Land | BBC Radio 3 | 2022 | 58'32''

A fully cast binaural performance of TS Eliot's ''The Waste Land'' to mark the poem's centenary, with an introductory p...

Four Quartets, Starring Ralph Fiennes

Four Quartets, Starring Ralph Fiennes

Four Quartets | BBC Four | 2022 | 1'21'29''

Ralph Fiennes' exquisite performance of TS Eliot's poetic masterpiece ''Four Quartets'' is translated from stage to screen by director ...

Juliette Binoche: Antigone at the Barbican

Juliette Binoche: Antigone at the Barbican

The Theban Plays | BBC Four | 2015 | 1'28'56''

Cameras exclusively capture the Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche playing the title role in Sophocles' tale of family ...

The Late Show | Middlemarch – A User’s Guide

The Late Show | Middlemarch – A User’s Guide

Middlemarch | BBC Two | 1994 | 39'54''

Is George Eliot's ''Middlemarch'', currently a BBC classic serial, on of the world's greatest novels? Kevin Jackon i...

Did You See…? | Silas Marner

Did You See…? | Silas Marner

Silas Marner | BBC Two | 1986 | 6'59''

A review of the 1985 adaptation of Silas Marner.

Front Row | Silas Marner

Front Row | Silas Marner

Silas Marner | BBC Radio 4 | 2010 | 4'56''

Tessa Hadley on George Eliot's novel Silas Marner

In Our Time | Silas Marner

In Our Time | Silas Marner

Silas Marner | BBC Radio 4 | 2010 | 41'50''

Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.

My Life in Verse | 02: Robert Webb

My Life in Verse | 02: Robert Webb

BBC Two | 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 ...

The Verb | Hidden

The Verb | Hidden

BBC Radio 3 | 2022 | 43'42''

Kayo Chingonyi discusses the Black British poetry anthology he has edited; More Fiya, a sequel to the seminal 1998 collection The Fire People, edited by Le...

Arena | Introduction to Middlemarch

Arena | Introduction to Middlemarch

Middlemarch | BBC Four | 2019 | 3'09''

An introduction to the plot and setting of George Eliot's Middlemarch.

Poems on the Box | Re-Verse

Poems on the Box | Re-Verse

BBC Two | 1993 | 38'40''

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 ...
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