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Civilised Doubts

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In the first of five talks about T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets, Eric Griffiths of Trinity
College, Cambridge, reflects on Eliot's scrupulous uncertainty about political conviction and his attempt to 'insinuate the whole history of a language and a civilisation' into his writing.
Readers MARTIN JARVIS and ALEX JENNINGS
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE (Tomorrow: Martin Dodsworth on ‘Burnt Norton' with a reading of the Poem by John Franklyn-Robbins )

Contributors

Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
Eric Griffiths
Readers:
Martin Jarvis
Readers:
Alex Jennings
Producer:
Thomas Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Martin Dodsworth
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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