Stop All the Clocks: WH Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Adam Low returns to the poet and his work 35 years after his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ film The Auden Landscape, to reveal how Auden's poetry helps us to understand the tumultuous 21st century.
Why does the poet who began as the golden boy of the 1930s and ended up as the craggy-faced laureate-we-never-had have a greater hold on our imaginations than ever before?
Thirty-five years after his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following Auden's surges of popularity from featuring in Four Weddings and a Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11, Low reveals how Auden's poetry helps us to have a better understanding of the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live. Writers Alan Bennett, Polly Clark, Alexander McCall Smith and Richard Curtis, and poets James Fenton and Paul Muldoon share their passion for Auden and celebrate the potent impact of his work.
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Music Played
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Duke Ellington
Cong-Go
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Duke Ellington
Piano Improvisation No. 2
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Duke Ellington
Body and Soul
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Duke Ellington
Blues For Jerry
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Duke Ellington
So
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John Coltrane
Central Park
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The Shadows
Apache
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Adam Low |
Producer | John Archer |
Production Company | Hopscotch Films |
Broadcasts
- Sat 30 Sep 2017 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Wales
- Sat 30 Sep 2017 22:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Wales
- Fri 27 Oct 2017 01:15
- Wed 24 Aug 2022 00:00
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