A celebration of the life and work of William Butler Yeats who was born a hundred years ago today
Introduced by DEREK PARKER with the recorded voices of: W. H. AUDEN
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY JAMES STEPHENS
SIR MAX BEERBOHM ROBERT SMYLLIE
SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE
The poems are read by: MICHEAL MAC LIAMMOIR
JAMES STEPHENS , DYLAN THOMAS SIOBHAN MCKENNA , CYRIL CUSACK and W. B. YEATS
The ballads are sung by JOHN STEPHENSON
The programme compiled by Derek Parker
A Sound Archives production by John Powell