Ivor Gurney (1S90-1937) was one of the song writers England produced earlier this century (Ireland and Warlock were of the same vintage): but he was also a poet of distinction and originality; his double gifts unparalleled since Thomas Campian in Elizabethan times.
Michael Hurd , author of a recent book on Gurney, presents the second in a five-part biographical series, in which LAURIE LEE reads the poems and STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) an] JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) perform the songs.