With the death of Ted Hughes in October, the world lost one of its most distinctive poetic voices. Hughes's life combined public honour, as poet laureate, and private tragedy, with the suicide of his poet wife Sylvia Plath.

This film explores Hughes's life and celebrates his literary achievement with archive interviews and readings from Hughes himself. Friends, critics and fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Diana Rigg, Tom Paulin and John Carey, recall the man and his work, and specially-shot sequences mirror the landscapes that shaped Hughes's powerful work.

(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)