My Life in Verse | 2: Robert Webb

Duration: 59'13''

Synopsis

Robert Webb returns to his Lincolnshire classroom and visits Paris on a journey to find out more about the poem The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and its author, TS Eliot.

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