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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.

59 minutes

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Tue 13 Sep 2011 23:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Producer Sam Hobkinson
Director Sam Hobkinson
Producer Chris Granlund
Keats Nicholas Shaw
Shelley Blake Ritson
Byron Joseph Millson

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