All Episodes 1964

Series in which English Literature is explored through dramatisation.

David Daiches introduces and talks about war poetry, interspersed with live readings and actings out of poems and passages: Thomas Hardy's In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'; Henry V, act IV, scene 3, by Shakespeare, read by Michael Redgrave; Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen; The Responsibility by Peter Appleton; Peter Seeger's Where Have All the Flowers Gone is performed by a male quartet.

The Dramatist and Human Affairs