Poetry In Motion Thomas Hardy

Record ID: 125168
  • Title: Poetry In Motion Thomas Hardy
  • Date: 6th June 1990
  • Summary: ALAN BENNETT talks to a small audience about the life and work of THOMAS HARDY ( (1840 - 1928) whose 150th anniversary is celebrated on 2 June, 1990. Alan recites some of Hardy's best loved verses including BEENY CLIFF, THE WHITEWASHED WALL , THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN and PROUD SONGSTERS. many of the poems are illustrated with stills, archive film and specially shot sequences. Though Hardy wrote poetry most of his life, during the last 30 years he wrote little of anything else.
  • Description:A proposal for six half-hour prorammes dealing with the work of leading 20th cencentury british poets to be drawn from wilfred owen,d h lawrence,robert graves,louis macneice,w h auden,thomas hardy,t s eliot,philip larkin
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:LILYVILLE PRODUCTIONS LTD
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:06/06/1990
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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