Robert Donat reads his choices:

1. Rudyard Kipling: The Way through the Woods 1:03

2. Robert Bridges: Nightingales 1:16

3. John Keats: Bright Star 1:01

4. Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 2:23

5. Keats: Ode to Melancholy 1:54

6. Keats: When I Have Fears 0:57

7. Percy Shelley: Adonais (in memory Keats) 3:33

Laurie Lee & James Mason

8. Laurie Lee: The Abandoned Shade (author) 1:08

9. Laurie Lee: Day of these Days (author) 1:11

10. Robert Browning: The Bishop Orders his Tomb (James Mason) 10:09

Alec Guinness’ choices

11. Edith Sitwell: I do Like to be Beside the Seaside (Façade) 1:13

12. Edith Sitwell: Polka (Façade) 1:06

13. Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella 1:13

14. Walter James Turner: Romance (‘Chimborazo Cotopaxi’) 1:12

15. Robert Graves: Through Nightmare 0:47

16. W.H. Auden: Hearing of Harvest, Rotting in the Valley 2:33

17. Anon: Clerk Saunders 5:56

18. Anon: King John and the Abbot of Canterbury 5:37

19. Wm.Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 3 – Act 2, Scene 5: Soliloquy 1:59

20. Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 3:56

21. Ogden Nash: Serviette in a Lovely Home 2:36

22. Arthur Hugh Clough: Spectator Ab Extra 0:52

23. William Blake: Night 2:03

24. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo & the Golden Echo 4:12

War Poets (selection)

25. David Jones: In Parenthesis (excerpt) 2:26

(C. Day Lewis, Hugh Burden, John Stride, Gary Watson)

26. Robert Graves: The Survivor (V.C. Clinton-Baddeley) 1:20

27. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting (Alec Guinness) 2:54

28. Wilfred Owen: Arms & the Boy (Carleton Hobbs) 0:52

29. Wilfred Owen: Futility (Robert Donat) 0:58

30. Rupert Brooke: The Hill (Robert Donat) 0:57

31. Siegfried Sassoon: The Death Bed (Robert Donat) 4:01

32. Henry Reed: Naming of Parts (author) 2:12