“Over 78 minutes of sustained quality in favourites, all performed by legendary voices and looks like another UK best-seller”

Contents:

1. W.H.Auden - The Night Mail (John Laurie)
2. Laurie Lee - April (Laurie Lee)
3. Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan)
4. Robert Burns - Red, Red Rose (John Neville)

Alec Guinness reading (*with Osian Ellis, harp):
5. E.E.Cummings - Sweet Spring
6. E.E.Cummings - When Faces Called Flowers....
7. E.E.Cummings - The Moon Looked into my Window
8. Thomas H. Bayly - Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays*
9. Cornelius Whur - The Female Friend*
10. Thomas H. Bayly - Toujours Le Meme*
11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Exelsior*

Richard Burton reading:
12. Thomas Hardy - Wessex Heights
13. Thomas Hardy - The Voice
14. John Clare - Autumn
15. Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd
16. Walter Raleigh - Nymph’s Reply
17. Bishop Henry King - from Exequy on his Wife
18. William Dunbar - from Lament of the Makers
19. Robert Graves - Welsh Incident

John Betjeman reading Betjeman:
20. The Church’s Restoration
21. Olympic Girl
22. Seaside Golf
23. Business Women
24. Indoor Games near Newbury
25. How to get on in Society
26. Licorice Fields at Pontefract

Robert Donat reading:
27. A. E. Housman - from Far from Eve and Morning
28. John Betjeman - Death at Leamington
29. Coventry Patmore - The Toys
30. T. S. Eliot - Gus, the Theatre Cat
31. Yuan Jie - Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake
32. Robert Browning - Ring and the Book (extract)
33. Wm Shakespeare - On her Reign (from Henry VIII)
34. Shakespeare - ‘Dirge for Fidele’ from Cymbeline (Fear no more the Heat of the Sun...)
35. William Wordsworth - Intimations of Immortality

36. John Donne - A Devotion (No Man is an Island) (Orson Welles)
37. Langston Hughes - Freedom Train (Paul Robeson)
38. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)