Yeats the poet has long been acclaimed as one of the great voices of 20th-century literature, but what of Yeats the man of action, heavily involved in the politics of his country? Humphrey Carpenter discusses Yeats's legacy with biographer Roy Foster.
Yeats scholar John Kelly , and writers Fintan O'Toole and Anne Enright. TP McKenna reads from Yeats's verse and Irish band Nervous perform their setting of Yeats's poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Producer Abigail Appleton