A series of personal choices of prose and poetry
Guest reader - Barbara Jefford
Given before an invited audience at the Richmond Theatre, Surrey

Sir Michael's choices include Alexander Woollcott's account of Mrs. Patrick Campbell's first night in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." Sir Michael contributes his own prologue, and also a poem to celebrate his birth written by his actor-father.
Sir Michael's choices can be described as popular in the best sense of the word. Authors are Coleridge, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Hans Andersen, Katherine Mansfield, Wordsworth, Belloc, and Kipling.
Incidentally this is the only programme in the series where our stars break into song, which they do in the setting of an anonymous poem collected by W.H. Auden.
A further series of Evenings will be televised shortly, with Lady Asquith, A.J. Ayer, Alan Bennett, Lord MacLeod, and Alistair Cooke.
(Colour)