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Book of the Week: Young Eliot: Episode 4

Episode 4

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Working at a bank and The Waste Land. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot.

Working at a bank and The Waste Land. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot. Read by Tom Mannion and David Acton.

Time spent in Bosham. Then in London, Tom becomes a bank employee. Then lines for The Waste Land begin to take shape.

A fresh biography of TS Eliot by Robert Crawford, abridged by Katrin Williams, published to mark 50 years since the poet's death:

Readers: Tom Mannion and David Acton

Producer Duncan Minshull

First heard on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.

Book of the Week: Young Eliot

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Robert Crawford's biography of a key 20th century poet, TS Eliot.

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