by RICHARD HOLMES
A study of the poet Gerard de Nerval who committed suicide in January 1855. Nerval's lucid analysis of his periods of alienation remain among the most haunting documents in European literature Timothy West as GeYard de Nerval
With ROD BEACHAM, BRUCE BEEBY , GERALD CROSS, NICOLETTE MC KENZIE. JONATHAN SCOTT , MAN-NING WILSON and comments by RICHARD HOLMES
' was in a tower that went so deeply into the earth, and so high in the sky. that it seemed as if my entire life would be consumed in climbing up and down.'
Music created by MALCOLM CLARKE in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON
(A revised version of the programme broadcast in 1977) (French readings of Nerval poetry: Friday 9.30 pm)