A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
A documentary chronicling the romantic ups and downs of the life of poet T.S Eliot, whose work would become the source material for "Cats," one of the biggest hits in Broadway history. The documentary delves into the relationship between Valerie Eliot and the prolific author as well as exploring the composition of the book of poems that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats", "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", published in 1939.
Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.
Eliot's life, influence, and poetry from the bold originality of "Prufrock" to the probing, meditative style of "Four Quartets" are explored with photos, archival footage, and discussion with friends, critics, and scholars.
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste Land” an expression of the exhaustion and fragmentation that afflicted so many in that post-war era. They also recognized the originality of Eliot’s poetic technique and admired his insistence on the need for spiritual values in an age of popular kitsch.
