ARTS & DRAMA
The unforgettable poetry of WWI
Sunday 13 April 2008 16:30-16:56 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Saturday 19 April 2008 23:30-0:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Josephine Hart explores the work of great poets at live events at the British Library, with readings from some of Britain's finest actors.
The unforgettable poetry of the First World War, with actors Robert Hardy, Daniel Stevens, Damian Lewis and Elizabeth McGovern giving voice to the sarcasm, wit, suffering and loss of the poets of the Great War, to devastatingly moving effect.
Poems include:
1914, The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke
To Any Dead Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon
The General, by Siegfried Sassoon
Inspection, by Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
Pill Box, by Edmund Blunden
The Victory Ball, by Alfred Noyes
Extracts from Epitaphs of the War, by Rudyard Kipling
