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| Actress And Her Time, An | ...Irene Worth has been a leading actress on the international stage for over 50 years. Her career has stretched from T S ELIOT's `The Cocktail Party' to her current one-woman show about Lillian Gish. In a series of three conversations, she talks to John Miller about her rich life in the theatre.... |
| Another Country | ...A series of eight essays in which writers discuss unfamiliar surroundings and experiences. In the first programme, Iain Sinclair leaves behind the familiarity of Hackney to explore themes of exile and asylum on the south coast of ENGLAND. He considers the sojourn in Margate of T S ELIOT, who spent the Autumn of 1921 there recovering from a breakdown and composing `The Wasteland', and in Hastings he meets the photographer Effie Paleologou, whose work is inspired by feelings of alienation. Sinclair contrasts these voluntary artistic exiles with the despair of asylum seekers in the South.... |
| Behind The Book | ...Joan discovers that the present owners of T S ELIOT's flat in London, where he was living at the time of writing the poem, are enthusiastic devotees.... |
| Christopher Ricks - Poems In Reply | ...Christopher Ricks demonstrates poets' love of replying to each other - from the comic to the barbed, from T S ELIOT to G K Chesterton.... |
| Dart | ...Alice Oswald's poem, winner of the 2002 T S ELIOT Prize, follows the river Dart from its source to its estuary.... |
| Defining Moments [documentary] | ...`We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time...' T S ELIOT. In the first of two interval programmes, Geoff Watts looks at birth, its place in society and how it is reflected in the arts.... |
| Envy Of The World, The | ...Humphrey Carpenter investigates how the Third captured the intellectual high-ground with talks by the likes of Isaiah Berlin and Bertrand Russell. The `Hilda Tablet' plays of Henry Reed offered a lighter touch, and the Third broadcast one of the most famous programmes ever - `Under Milk Wood'. In 1957, cuts to the Third provoked a high-profile protest campaign. Today's programme includes the first broadcast ever of a speech by T S ELIOT as part of the protest.... |
| Four Quartets, The | ...By T S ELIOT ... |
| Great Libraries, The | ...In this great historic library, Joan looks at manuscripts from poets including Percy Shelley, T S ELIOT, Philip Larkin and W H Auden.... |
| Hurry Up Please Its Time | ...T S ELIOT described his poem `The Waste Land' as `just a piece of rhythmical grumbling', but it has become one of the most discussed and imitated works of the century. Valentine Cunningham investigates its wide-ranging influence with the help of writers Blake Morrison, Peter Porter, Iain Sinclair, Malcolm Bradbury and Emanuel Litvinoff, actress Fiona Shaw and composer George Benjamin.... |
| In The Dark Time | ...A work inspired by T S ELIOT's `Little Gidding'.... |
| Modernism | ...1922 was the annus mirabilis of literary modernism - the year in which James Joyce's `Ulysses', T S ELIOT's `The Waste Land' and Virginia Woolf's early experimental novel `Jacob's Room' were all first published.... |
| Poetry Please | ...Fiona Shaw reads one of the greatest epics of the twentieth century, T S ELIOT's The Waste Land, a poem detailing the human soul's journey in search of redemption.... |
| Postscript | ...With Michael Schmidt. 1: Rita Dove and Mark Doty. The first in a series of readings by contemporary poets from America reflecting the diverse range of poetry being written in the States today. Dove was the first AFRICAn-American poet laureate of the US, and her work is suffused with a quiet humanity. Doty, forceful and inventive, was the winner of the 1995 T S ELIOT Prize.... |
| Rapture | ...Fiona Shaw reads from Carol Ann Duffy's T S ELIOT Prize-winning collection of love poems, adapted for radio by Duffy herself and set to a musical background.... |
| Remaking The Past | ...Valentine Cunningham explores the theory and practice of literary influence, from T S ELIOT's important early essay `Tradition and the Individual Talent' to Harold Bloom's `The Anxiety of Influence' and the gleeful parodies of postmodernism. The programme marks the start of Radio 3's Remaking the Past season - a week of music, features and debate investigating the ways in which artists have consciously used models and motifs taken from the art of earlier generations.... |
| Still Life With Kazin | ...At 82, New York writer and critic Alfred Kazin is the grand old man of American letters. In the first of five conversations with Russell Davies, Kazin remembers Britain during the war, when, as a writer with the American army's Bureau of Current Affairs, he met T S ELIOT and Edmund Wilson.... |
| Verb, The | ...Ian will also be marking the 40th anniversary of the death of T S ELIOT with a reassessment of his reputation as a dramatist.... |
| Viewing The Century - Seamus Heaney | ...Illustrating his talk with reference to Osip Mandelstam and Dylan Thomas, W B Yeats and T S ELIOT, and Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and drawing extensively on BBC archives, Heaney's passionately argued piece concludes with a magnificent rendition of his own poem written after the recent death of Joseph Brodsky, a friend and fellow poet.... |
| Waste Land, The | ...In celebration of his eightieth birthday, actor Paul Scofield performs T S ELIOT's `The Waste Land', fulfilling his wish to perform the work for radio.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...T S ELIOT... |