Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,899 playable programmes from the BBC

Book of the Week

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

Episode 5: In Parenthesis - The Epic War Poem

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Thomas Dilworth's biography of the visual artist and poet, David Jones, illuminates the life and work of a great but neglected Modernist. Today, the years spent in the First World War's trenches take their toll. The epic war poem, In Parenthesis reaches a conclusion, and we hear David Jones himself read an extract.

Read by Nicholas Farrell
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Elizabeth Allard. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More