30/01/2011
Roger McGough introduces requests for TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land. The programme draws upon recordings by Eliot himself, Ted Hughes and Lia Williams.
Roger McGough introduces requests for TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land. First published in 1922, the programme draws upon existing recordings of the work by Eliot himself and Ted Hughes, with a new recording read by Lia Williams. The effect is to semi-dramatise this extremely influential work which extended the range of the dramatic monologue. Known for its almost deliberate obscurity in places, what the listener hears in this version is instead a clear, intriguing interpretation of the poem, intercutting between the different voices.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
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