‘One of the best anthologies of the year. An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.’ The Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen’s published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain’s leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages’ speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains over four hundred poems read by forty actors. Michael Caine reads Kipling’s ‘If’; Ralph Fiennes reads Hood’s ‘I Remember, I Remember’; John Cleese reads ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’; Pete Postlethwaite reads ‘Kubla Khan’.
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Seven Ages
Author | Anonymous, William Shakespeare, Thomas Gunn, Anne Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Thomas Hood, William Allingham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alan Alexander Milne, Lewis Carroll, Ted Hughes, G.K. Chesterton, Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, Shel Silverstein, John Whitworth, J. Whittier, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Cecil Day Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, Thomas Stearns Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rabindranath Tagore, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Robert Seymour Bridges, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A.E. Housman, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, David Herbert Richards Lawrence, John Keats, Julian Grenfell, James Russell Lowell, Seamus Heaney, John McCrea, Vera Brittain, Wilfred Owen, Eva Dobell, Wystan Hugh Auden, John Jarmain, Ruth Fainlight, Elsie Cawser, Matthew Arnold, Dan Pagis, John Donne, John Boyle O'Reilly, Walt Whitman, Geoffrey Chaucer, James Henry Leigh Hunt, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Frost, John Masefield, Morris Bishop, Alfred Tennyson, John Wilmot, Stanley J. Sharples, Leo Marks, John Banister Tabb, Takako Nishizaki, Capella Istropolitana, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Ian McKellen, Jacob Heringman, Rose Consort of Viols, Catherine McCormack, Glenda Jackson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Mark Rylance, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Stella Gonet, John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Joss Ackland, Leo Sayer, Emma Fielding, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, John Sessions, Ioan Gruffud, Jenny Agutter, Michael Williams, Michael Caine, Timothy West, Terence Stamp, David Suchet, Michael Maloney, Art Malik, HRH The Duchess of Kent, Felicity Kendal, Janet Suzman, Hannah Gordon, Samuel West, Charles Dance, Robert Lindsay, Pete Postlethwaite, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward, William Houston, Judi Dench, Robert Powell, Lord Owen, Ed Bishop, Shirley Rumsey, Clark Peters, Robert Hardy |
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Release | 4–11–2000 |
Audience | General content |
Publisher | Naxos AudioBooks |
Subjects | Fiction, Poetry |