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"TS Eliot" (25 results)
An exploration of TS Eliot's ''The Waste Land'', in its centenary year, that for the first time uncovers the personal story behin...
Jonathan Bate investigates how the Blitz motivated TS Eliot's Four Quartets. How does history influence poetry?
Marian Evans became world famous in 1859 at the age of 39 as George Eliot, the author of ''Adam Bede''....
An introduction to 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and a discussion of why women authors have so often used pseudo...
George Eliot's real life explored through five of her fictional characters. Kathryn Hughes hears from writer David...
A reading and analysis of T. S. Eliot's modernist poem 'The Waste Land'.
Robert Webb discusses the complexities of T. S. Eliot's poetry with an old teacher.
A discussion of Mary Anne Evans' choice to use the pseudonym George Eliot.
An introduction to the plot and setting of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
First of six of this adaptation of the novel by George Eliot. After plans have been made for a wedding, a crime is discovered.
Eight part adaptation of the novel by George Eliot. Maggie Tulliver (Georgia Slowe) the miller's daughter, defies her embittered brother & shock...
First published in 1861, George Eliot's novel dramatised for radio by Richard Cameron, directed by Pauline Harris and starring George...
First of a six part adaptation by Andrew Davies of George Eliot's epic saga. Dr Tertius Lydgate is put in charge of the fever hospital in Middlemarch. Dor...
Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter and Patrick Ryecart star in dramatisation of George Eliot's novel about a lonely weaver whose life cha...
A fully cast binaural performance of TS Eliot's ''The Waste Land'' to mark the poem's centenary, with an introductory p...
Ralph Fiennes' exquisite performance of TS Eliot's poetic masterpiece ''Four Quartets'' is translated from stage to screen by director ...
Is George Eliot's ''Middlemarch'', currently a BBC classic serial, on of the world's greatest novels? Kevin Jackon i...
Tessa Hadley on George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.
The classic tale of a man wrongly accused of theft, starring Michael Williams (in his last radio performance) and Jenny Agutter.
Maggie Tulliver is torn between the two men in her life and struggles between duty and desire. If she is true to her heart she will betray those...
Cameras exclusively capture the Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche playing the title role in Sophocles' tale of family ...
A review of the 1985 adaptation of Silas Marner.
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 P...
Kayo Chingonyi discusses the Black British poetry anthology he has edited; More Fiya, a sequel to the seminal 1998 collection The Fire People, edited by Le...
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