A selection from Rainer Maria Rilke's letters to a young poet compiled by Mary Benson
with John Carson as Rilke
Narrated by Dinah Sheridan
and with Robin Soans as Franz Cappus

This is the first of two programmes based on Rainer Maria Rilke's letters.

Rainer Maria Rilke created a world of inwardness and was a fascinating and generous letter writer. To a young poet he wrote about poetry, criticism, nature and the need for solitude, about women and childhood.