Synopsis
A selection of poetry about peace introduced by Martin Booth. These include ‘After the war’ by Xin Yuan, ‘Sonnet 107’ by William Shakespeare, ‘As toilstone I wander'd Virginia's woods’ by Walt Whitman, ‘Spring offensive’ by Wilfred Owen, ‘Mersa’ by Keith Douglas, ‘Counting small-boned bodies’ by Robert Bly, ‘And the dead shall be raised’ by Galway Kinnell, ‘Naming of parts’ by Henry Reed, ‘Untitled (In the holocaust)’ by Hara Tamiki, ‘Deathfeast’ by Takis Sinopoulos and ‘Alchemist’ by Alan Sillitoe.
Poetry Please | 20/06/2010
Roger McGough introduces some of the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, plus a selection from some other 17th-century masters: John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughan.
Desert Island Discs | Sir Leon Brittan
Britain's EC Trade Commissioner and former Conservative Home Secretary talks to Sue Lawley about his life and career, and chooses his favourite music. His choices include Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, the commentary on England winning the Ashes in 1953, `When I was a Lad' from HMS Pinafore, his wife reading Shakespeare's Sonnet No 16, 'Eternal Father Strong To Save', Don Carlos by Verdi, Dvorak's Cello Concerto, and Mozart's 'Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail'.