December 22, 2016

Four Quartets

Listen Later

48 minutes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity.

With

David Moody

Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York

Fran Brearton

Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast

And

Mark Ford

Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Jeremy Irons will be reading TS Eliot's greatest poems, from Prufrock to The Waste Land to Four Quartets, across New Year's Day here on Radio 4.

...more

View all episodes

View all episodes

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

In Our Time: Culture

By BBC Radio 4

4.5

595595 ratings

December 22, 2016

Four Quartets

Listen Later

48 minutes

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity.

With

David Moody

Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York

Fran Brearton

Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast

And

Mark Ford

Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Jeremy Irons will be reading TS Eliot's greatest poems, from Prufrock to The Waste Land to Four Quartets, across New Year's Day here on Radio 4.

...more