Synopsis
ln the first of a new six-part series, the prolific biographer and campaigner Lady Longford looks back over almost 100 years of a literary life when she chooses her favourite pieces of prose and poetry. These include When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats read by Philip Franks, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte read by Philip Franks, Stones of Venice by John Ruskin read by Eleanor Bron, Jerusalem by William Blake read by Philip Franks, Lord Lundy by Hilaire Belloc read by Philip Franks, Spain 1937 by W.H. Auden read by Philip Franks and Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare read by Eleanor Bron.
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'.