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Season 1

  • S01E01 Programme 1

    • January 1, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Blake, Carroll, Cummings, Tennyson

  • S01E02 Programme 2

    • Channel 4

    MacNeice, Frost, Lear, Williams

  • S01E03 Programme 3

    • Channel 4

    Causley, Betjeman, Shelley, Owen

  • S01E04 Programme 4

    • Channel 4

    Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Auden, Dickinson

Season 2

  • S02E01 Programme 5

    • Channel 4

    The Ruined Maid, by Thomas Hardy Follower, by Seamus Heaney In Mrs Tilscher's Class, by Carol Ann Duffy Gipsies, by John Clare

  • S02E02 Programme 6

    • Channel 4

    The Willing Mistress, by Aphra Behn An Irishman Foresees His Death by W B Yeats Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

  • S02E03 Programme 7

    • Channel 4

    The Flea, by John Donne A Letter from Marie Curie, by Lavinia Greenlaw Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, by Walt Whitman

  • S02E04 Programme 8

    • Channel 4

    Not Waving but Drowning, by Stevie Smith What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov Piano, by DH Lawrence From the Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde

Season 3

  • S03E01 Programme 9

    • Channel 4

    You will be hearing from us shortly by UA Fanthorpe This Living Hand, Now Warm And Capable by John Keats Front Lines / As The Crickets' Soft Autumn Hum by Gary Snyder Illuminations by Tony Harrison

  • S03E02 Programme 10

    • Channel 4

    Sonnet 130: My Mistres eyes are nothing like the Sunne by William Shakespeare On the Farm by RS Thomas This is a Hymn by Lorna Goodison From Verses on the Death of Dr Swift by Jonathan Swift

  • S03E03 Programme 11

    • Channel 4

    From Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria by Langston Hughes Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Cavendish The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath

  • S03E04 Programme 12

    • Channel 4

    They fle from me that sometyme did me seke by Sir Thomas Wyatt From Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart In a Station of the Metro/Alba by Ezra Pound History of the Airplane by Lawrence Ferlinghetti