William Cowper compiled from his own writings by KERI LEWIS
Ronald Pickup as the poet Mary Wimbush as narrator
Cowper's outwardly uneventful life was darkened by an illness which is nowadays known as manic depression.
No voice divine the storm allay'd,
No light propitious shone;
When, snatch'd from all effectual aid,
We perish'd, each alone;
But 1, beneath a rougher sea.
And whelm'd in deeper guilt than he.
Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME