
Four Quartets (Summer Repeat)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, written just before and during World War II as meditations on humanity's relationship with time
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鈥檚 University, Belfast
And
Mark Ford
Professor of English and American Literature at University College London
Producer: Simon Tillotson
First broadcast on 22nd December 2016
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