Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden

Update: 2014-05-16

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Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves. With Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins, Richard Eyre, Mike Leigh, Simon McBurney, Ian McEwan, Ben Okri, Simon Russell Beale and Simon Schama, and Kate Allen (Amnesty International UK).

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End note by Kate Allen

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Richard Eyre - Sandra's Mobile by Douglas Dunn

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Ian McEwan - An Exequy by Peter Porter

2014-06-1006:27

Mike Leigh - eulogy to a hell of a dame by Charles Bukowski

2014-06-0501:45

Simon McBurney: and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger

2014-06-0204:20

Melvyn Bragg: Sonnet XXX

2014-05-2902:49

Richard Dawkins: Last Poems: XL by A. E. Housman

2014-05-2203:22

Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden

2014-05-1602:49

Ben Okri: Elegy for Alto by Christopher Okigo

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Simon Russell Beale: I see a girl draffed by the wrist by Philip Larkin

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Introduction by Anthony and Ben Holden

2014-05-0903:58

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Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden

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Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden

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Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden