T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Name: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Director: David Thomas
Released: 1988-03-06
Cast: Peter Ackroyd, Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot, Edward Fox, Michael Gough

S1 E9 March 6, 1988

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Overview

Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In this program, Professor Frank Kermode, of Cambridge University; Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd; and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.