Poetry Please | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2006)

Duration: 27'38''

Synopsis

Daljit Nagra selects ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' about an epic voyage. Read by Trevor Peacock.

Further Information
Other Archive resources
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | BBC Radio 4 | 1999

The Classic Serial | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1999)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poem, here dramatised for radio, was first published 200 years ago. Why does the mariner shoot the albatross? And is the poem a Christian parable?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | BBC Home Service | 1956

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1956)

John Gielgud reading 'The Ancient Mariner'.