Presented and compiled by Patric Dickinson
Masefield is better known as a poet of the sea and a narrative poet, but his sense of the past was also deeply engaged with the Romans in Britain. The programme draws from his poetic dramas The Frontier and Good Friday seen from the Roman Pilate's point of view. Readers SEAN BARRETT.
PETER COPLEY and JOHN HARTOCH Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol (R)