Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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Poems (1920) | 20170101 | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S.Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Two
Jeremy Irons reads:
With contributions from writer Jeanette Winterson and lawyer and academic Anthony Julius
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | ||
Prufrock and Other Observations | 20170101 | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part One
Jeremy Irons reads:
With a contribution from Jeanette Winterson
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | ||
Prufrock and Other Observations | 20170101 | 20211225 (R4) | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part One
Jeremy Irons reads:
With a contribution from Jeanette Winterson
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | |
The Waste Land | 20170101 | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Three
Jeremy Irons reads:
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | ||
The Waste Land | 20170101 | 20211226 (R4) | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Three
Jeremy Irons reads:
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | |
04 | The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Ariel Poems | 20170101 | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Four
Jeremy Irons reads:
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. | |
04 | The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Ariel Poems | 20170101 | 20220102 (R4) | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S. Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Four
Jeremy Irons reads:
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. |
05 | Four Quartets | 20170101 | Join us for an extraordinary journey at the turn of the year, as Jeremy Irons reads the complete collection of T.S.Eliot's English poems, almost in their entirety, across New Year's Day. This celebration of Eliot's work comes in five parts, each of which are introduced by Martha Kearney and special guests, including the actress Fiona Shaw, the writer Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart MP, and the lawyer Anthony Julius. At the end of a year in which so much that had been taken for granted seemed to fragment, our guests explain why Eliot, himself a poet of fragments, can steady us for a journey into the unknown, and for transformation. Our journey includes the The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' with its exquisite depiction of the loneliness of young man, the post-war turmoil of The Waste Land', the spiritual struggle of poems like Ash-Wednesday' - and concludes with the lucent imagery of time and possibility in the Four Quartets'; there may be no better preparation for the coming year.
Part Five
Jeremy Irons reads:
With contribution from writer and MP Rory Stewart
Actor Jeremy Irons reads the poetry of TS Eliot. |