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Eternity
Episode 3 of 3
Series presented by Peter Ackroyd about a group of visionary writers. Byron, Keats and Shelley lived short lives but the radical way they lived them would change the world.
Byron, Keats and Shelley lived short lives, but the radical way they lived them would change the world. At 19, Shelley wrote The Necessity of Atheism - it was banned and burned, but it freed the Romantics from religion. Through their search for meaning in a world without God, they pioneered the notions of free love, celebrity and secular idolatry that are at the centre of modern Western culture.
For them poetry became the new religion, a way of reaching eternity. Their words are brought to life by Nicholas Shaw, Blake Ritson and Joseph Millson.
Last on
Tue 13 Sep 2011
23:00
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Sam Hobkinson |
Director | Sam Hobkinson |
Producer | Chris Granlund |
Keats | Nicholas Shaw |
Shelley | Blake Ritson |
Byron | Joseph Millson |
Broadcast
- Tue 13 Sep 2011 23:00