by Ralph Vaughan Williams
A setting for tenor, piano, and string quartet of six poems from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
Singer Ryland Davies
Players Colin Staveley (violin), Clive Lander (violin), Geoffrey York (viola), John Cullis (cello) and Martin Jones (piano)
Actors Victoria Plucknett and John Ogwen

A. E. Housman's well-loved first volume of poetry was written in the spring of 1895. Fourteen years later Ralph Vaughan Williams took six of the poems and clothed them in music as evocative and memorable as the poet's words.
Tonight's programme is an impression of the song-cycle, filmed in the Shropshire countryside in spring and summer last year.
BBC Wales