With Great Pleasure | Edith Evans
Sonnet 102
Edith Evans presents a selection of her favourite poems and excerpts from some of her favourite plays including Mrs. Moffat by Christopher Hassall, Cometh by Virginia Graham, The Lovely Man by Virginia Graham, The Apple Cart by George B. Shaw Diary of a Church Mouse by John Betjeman, The Way of the World by Congreve, Aunts by Virginia Graham, You Are Old Father William by Lewis Carroll, A Prayer by Virginia Graham, Notting Hill Polka by W. Bridges-Adams, Conveyances by Christopher Hassall, The Talented Man by W.M. Praed, The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough, Sonnet 102 by Shakespeare, Speech by Queen Katherine (King Henry VIII) by Shakespeare, The Polythene Bag by Virginia Graham, Where the Mind is Without Fear... by Tagore, Two Ways by Richard Church.
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