Written and produced by Christopher Burstall.
The weekly feature series on artists and the arts.

"A poet enchants for the purpose of disenchanting people - from their illusions about themselves and about the world."
"A good poem is a tall story, but it's really good it makes one want to know the truth."

A film profile in which W.H. Auden, one of the world's greatest living poets, talks to Peter Duval Smith and speaks some of his own poems.
Also taking part: Igor Stravinsky for whom he and Chester Kallman wrote The Rake's Progress; Christopher Isherwood with whom he wrote three plays

(Tony Church and Ian Holm are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company)