Acts of Redemption: Little Gidding
In the last of five programmes, Professor Christopher Ricks argues that in his valediction Eliot transforms his early talents for aggression and attack into virtues of gentleness and forgiving.
Complete readings of Little Gidding by Alec Guinness and John Franklyn-Robbins precede and follow the talk
(The Alec Guinness readings were produced by Hallam Tennyson in 1973; the introductory talks and the John Franklyn-Robbins readings produced by Thomas Sutcliffe in 1983)