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Duration: 1 hour

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.

Last on

Mon 13 Jul 2009 02:25 BBC One except HD

Credits

Presenter
Griff Rhys Jones
Participant
Simon Armitage
Participant
Andrew Motion
Participant
Nick Hytner
Director
Louise Hooper
Producer
Louise Hooper

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