Just over a year ago, Faiz Ahmed Faiz recorded at Pebble Mill a 'mushaira'
(poetry symposium), which was his last appearance on television. Soon afterwards he returned to Pakistan where he died in November 1984.
Faiz was probably the greatest Urdu poet of his era, the recipient of many national and international awards and, to mark the anniversary of his death, today's programme is devoted to his work.
There is an edited version of the television 'mushaira' in which he and a few other eminent poets recite their poems.
Also Iftikhar Arif speaks to the poet's widow Alys Faiz Producer KRISHAN GOULD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill