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Saturday Drama: Four Quartets

Four Quartets

18/01/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama, Four Quartets

Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations.

Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.

Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot.

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

With an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.

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