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Front Row: Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot, Arthur Miller play premier, Top picks for non-fiction books of 2015

Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot, Arthur Miller play premier, Top picks for non-fiction books of 2015

10/12/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot, Arthur Miller play premier, Top picks for non-fiction books of 2015

Literary critic Christopher Ricks discusses TS Eliot's annotated poems. With John Wilson.

Arts news with John Wilson, including literary critic Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot's annotated poems and a review of the Arthur Miller play No Villain.

John Wilson talks to the great literary critic Christopher Ricks about the monumental annotated poems of T. S. Eliot that he has co-edited. It runs to 2,000 pages, but only one in eight is verse, the others notes, commentary and context.

Arthur Miller's plays are performed on major stages throughout the world. But his very first drama No Villain is getting its world premier this week in a tiny theatre, above a London pub. Front Row reveals how this came about and Christopher Bigsby, Miller's biographer, reviews the production. No Villain runs at the Old Red Lion Theatre until 9 January.

Journalist and author Max Hastings and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes give a helping hand with this year's Christmas present shopping by picking their favourite non-fiction books of 2015.

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