Season 1 Episodes
1. Tragedy
January 14th, 196426 min
Series in which English Literature is explored through dramatisation.
2. The Poet and the World Around Him
January 21st, 196426 min
3. War Poetry
January 28th, 196426 min
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.
4. Comedy
February 4th, 196426 min
5. Episode 5
February 11th, 196426 min
The Dramatist and Human Affairs
6. 1.6
February 18th, 196426 min
7. The Novel: Landscape and Background
February 25th, 196426 min
8. 1.8
March 3rd, 196426 min
9. 1.9
March 10th, 196426 min
10. 1.10
March 17th, 196426 min
11. 1.11
March 24th, 196426 min
12. Personality
March 31st, 196426 min
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