Description
“Over 78 minutes of sustained quality in favourites, all performed by legendary voices and looks like another UK best-seller”
- 1 W.H.Auden: The Night Mail / John Laurie 2:13
- 2 Laurie Lee: April / Laurie Lee 1:21
- 3 Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol/ Frank Duncan 6:34
- 4 Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose / John Neville 0:46
- 5 E.E.Cummings: Sweet Spring 1:05
- 6 E.E.Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers…. 1:20
- 7 E.E.Cummings: The Moon Looked into my Window 1:04
- 8 Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays* 1:04
- 9 Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend* 1:52
- 10 Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme* 2:08
- 11 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior* 2:34
- 12 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights 2:48
- 13 Thomas Hardy: The Voice 0:54
- 14 John Clare: Autumn 0:47
- 15 Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd 0:58
- 16 Walter Raleigh: Nymph’s Reply 1:13
- 17 Bishop Henry King: from Exequy on his Wife 0:39
- 18 William Dunbar: from Lament of the Makers 0:45
- 19 Robert Graves: Welsh Incident 2:33
- 20 The Church’s Restoration 1:14
- 21 Olympic Girl 1:26
- 22 Seaside Golf 1:07
- 23 Business Women 1:00
- 24 Indoor Games near Newbury 2:25
- 25 How to get on in Society 0:55
- 26 Licorice Fields at Pontefract 1:29
- 27 A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning 0:42
- 28 John Betjeman: Death at Leamington 1:27
- 29 Coventry Patmore: The Toys 1:54
- 30 T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat 3:09
- 31 Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 1:10
- 32 Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (extract). 2:34
- 33 Wm Shakespeare: On her Reign (from Henry VIII) 1:18
- 34 Shakespeare: ‘Dirge for Fidele’ from Cymbeline
(Fear no more the Heat of the Sun…) 1:31 - 35 William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 11:01
- 36 John Donne: A Devotion (No Man is an Island) /
Orson Welles 4:10 - 37 Langston Hughes: Freedom Train / Paul Robeson 2:53
- 38 Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg address
/ Orson Welles 2:48
Alec Guinness reading: (*with Osian Ellis, harp)
Richard Burton reading:
John Betjeman reading Betjeman:
Robert Donat reading:
