Alec Guinness; Richard Burton; John Betjeman; Robert Donat Orson Welles; Laurie Lee etc
1 W.H.Auden: The Night Mail / John Laurie 2:13 2 Laurie Lee: April / Laurie Lee 1:21 3 Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol/ Frank Duncan 6:34 4 Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose / John Neville 0:46
Alec Guinness reading: (*with Osian Ellis, harp) 5 E.E.Cummings: Sweet Spring 1:05 6 E.E.Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers…. 1:20 7 E.E.Cummings: The Moon Looked into my Window 1:04 8 Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays* 1:04 9 Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend* 1:52 10 Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme* 2:08 11 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior* 2:34
Richard Burton reading: 12 Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights 2:48 13 Thomas Hardy: The Voice 0:54 14 John Clare: Autumn 0:47 15 Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd 0:58 16 Walter Raleigh: Nymph’s Reply 1:13 17 Bishop Henry King: from Exequy on his Wife 0:39 18 William Dunbar: from Lament of the Makers 0:45 19 Robert Graves: Welsh Incident 2:33
John Betjeman reading Betjeman:
20 The Church’s Restoration 1:14 21 Olympic Girl 1:26 22 Seaside Golf 1:07 23 Business Women 1:00 24 Indoor Games near Newbury 2:25 25 How to get on in Society 0:55 26 Licorice Fields at Pontefract 1:29
Robert Donat reading:
27 A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning 0:42 28 John Betjeman: Death at Leamington 1:27 29 Coventry Patmore: The Toys 1:54 30 T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat 3:09 31 Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 1:10 32 Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (extract). 2:34 33 Wm Shakespeare: On her Reign (from Henry VIII) 1:18 34 Shakespeare: ‘Dirge for Fidele’ from Cymbeline (Fear no more the Heat of the Sun…) 1:31 35 William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 11:01
36 John Donne: A Devotion (No Man is an Island) / Orson Welles 4:10 37 Langston Hughes: Freedom Train / Paul Robeson 2:53 38 Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg address / Orson Welles 2:48
