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Four Quartets

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by t. S. ELIOT Read by Alec Guinness
Music specially composed by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES and played by the FIRES OF LONDON
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose ore one.
This broadcast of what many think to be the greatest poem written in English in this century, has been specially prepared for the 50th Anniversary of the BBC.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON

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Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Read By:
Alec Guinness
Composed By:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Producer:
Hallam Tennyson
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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