Great Poets: In Their Own Words
DocumentaryHistory
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
Top Cast
Rebecca Front
Narrator (voice)
Simon Armitage
Self
Sarah Churchwell
Self
T. S. Eliot
Self
Germaine Greer
Self
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Liz Lochhead
Self
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Blake Morrison
Self
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Ezra Pound
Self
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Edith Sitwell
Self
Fiona Shaw
Self
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Stevie Smith
Self
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Dylan Thomas
Self
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R.S. Thomas
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
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Anne Sexton
Self
Sylvia Plath
Self
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John Berryman
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