Great Poets: In Their Own Words

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

Documentary History

Rebecca Front

(Narrator)

Simon Armitage

Sarah Churchwell

T. S. Eliot

Germaine Greer

Liz Lochhead

Blake Morrison

Ezra Pound

Edith Sitwell

Fiona Shaw

Stevie Smith

Dylan Thomas

R.S. Thomas

Allen Ginsberg

Anne Sexton

Sylvia Plath