Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805

Overview

This programme features excerpts from Jonathan Smart's 'Jubilate Agno', written in Bedlam, five poems by Blake, Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', and Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' - a fine example of "emotion recollected in tranquillity".

Guest Stars

Julian Glover

Self - Reader

Peggy Ashcroft

Self - Reader

Ian Richardson

Self - Reader