Seamus Heaney at 60
Five programmes celebrating and reassessing the poetry of Seamus Heaney in the week of his 60th birthday.
2: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Heaney has faced a double criticism: on the one hand, for being unpolitical, appearing to remain detached from "the situation" in Northern Ireland; and yet on the other for coming too close in some poems to offering a mythological justification for violence. This programme explores the relationship between Heaney's work and the troubled history of Northern Ireland during the last 30 years.