Time for Verse | 08/02/1979
Sonnet 129
The second of a series of six programmes compiled and presented by the poet Seamus Heaney. The works include ‘My Papa's Waltz’ by Theodore Roethke, ‘Man and Wife’ by Robert Lowell, ‘Sonnet 129’ by William Shakespeare, ‘She dwelt among untrodden ways...' by William Wordsworth, ‘Whose list to hunt...' by Thomas Wyatt, 'No Road' by Philip Larkin and 'The Clod & the Pebble' by William Blake.
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Newsnight | Sonnet 129
Ralph Fiennes performs Sonnet 129.
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'.