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To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatisations of telling events in the life of WH Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden’s poetry, notebooks, letters and journals. (BBC)
Top Cast
Simon Callow as Readings (voice)
Don Warrington as Readings (voice)
Kenneth Cranham as W H Auden
Fraser James as Readings (voice)
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