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Last broadcast on Mon, 13 Jul 2009, 02:25 on BBC One (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Griff Rhys Jones makes a passionate and personal plea for poetry, exploring how verse has the power to enlighten, entertain, stimulate and seduce.
Griff dissects Keats with Simon Armitage, views a line-up of poetic dandies with Andrew Motion and encounters an experimental poem made from a dozen beach balls. He celebrates W.H. Auden's Night Mail with a team of railway drivers, takes a Shakespearean masterclass with Nick Hytner and is thrown into the bardic bear pit at a poetry slam.
Credits
- Presenter
- Griff Rhys Jones
- Participant
- Simon Armitage
- Participant
- Andrew Motion
- Participant
- Nick Hytner
- Director
- Louise Hooper
- Producer
- Louise Hooper
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