Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his famous poem Kubla Khan in 1797 in a Somerset farmhouse after an opium-induced reverie. He claimed to have dreamt 300 lines of poetry, which he was transcribing when he was interrupted by a visitor from Porlock. The 54 lines he had completed remain one of the great texts of Romanticism. Coleridge's biographer Richard Holmes travels in the footsteps of the poet and searches for the origins of Kubla Khan. With contributions from Lewis Wolpert,
Stevie Smith , John Henry , Andrew Mackenzie and the children of St Dubricius School, Porlock. Repeat