| 1-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 1-2 |
A Child's Christmas In Wales, A Story |
| 1-3 |
Fern Hill |
| 1-4 |
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| 1-5 |
In The White Giant's Thigh |
| 1-6 |
Ballad Of The Long-legged Bait |
| 1-7 |
Ceremony After A Fire Raid |
| 1-8 |
A Few Words Of A Kind |
| 1-9 |
On The Marriage Of A Virgin |
| 1-10 |
The Hunchback In The Park |
| 1-11 |
Over Sir John's Hill |
| 1-12 |
Laugharne |
| 1-13 |
Especially When The October Wind |
| 2-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 2-2 |
Lament |
| 2-3 |
Poem On His Birthday |
| 2-4 |
Should Lanterns Shine |
| 2-5 |
There Was A Saviour |
| 2-6 |
A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London |
| 2-7 |
If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love |
| 2-8 |
And Death Shall Have No Dominion |
| 2-9 |
A Winter's Tale |
| 2-10 |
Author's Prologue |
| 2-11 |
The Hand That Signed The Paper |
| 2-12 |
Altarwise By Owl Light [1st Verse] |
| 2-13 |
The Tombstone Told When She Died |
| 2-14 |
If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot |
| 2-15 |
Poem In October (It Was My Thirtieth Year) |
| 2-16 |
Love In The Asylum |
| 2-17 |
In My Craft Or Sullen Art |
| 2-18 |
Dawn Raid |
| 2-19 |
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines |
| 2-20 |
After The Funeral |
| 2-21 |
In Country Sleep |
| 3-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 3-2 |
Quite Early One Morning |
| 3-3 |
Reminiscences Of Childhood |
| 3-4 |
A Visit To Grandpa's |
| 3-5 |
Holiday memory |
| 3-6 |
A Story |
| 4-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 4-2 |
The voice of Dylan Thomas, an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon |
| 4-3 |
Introduction To Over Sir John's Hill |
| 4-4 |
In Country Heaven (excerpt) / Read By Hugh Griffith |
| 4-5 |
Various Revisions Of In Country Heaven Which Resulted In The Final Version / Read By Douglas Cleverdon, Hugh Griffith, Basil Jones -- Humphrey Searle Reminiscing |
| 4-6 |
Over Sir John's Hill |
| 4-7 |
In Country Sleep |
| 4-8 |
In The White Giant's Thigh |
| 4-9 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing Harvest |
| 4-10 |
Harvest (excerpt) |
| 4-11 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Two Loves |
| 4-12 |
The Two Loves (excerpt) |
| 4-13 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Shadow Of Cain |
| 4-14 |
The Shadow Of Cain (excerpt) |
| 4-15 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Shadow Of Cain |
| 4-16 |
The Shadow Of Cain (excerpt) |
| 4-17 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Canticle Of The Rose |
| 4-18 |
The Canticle Of The Rose |
| 4-19 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing The Bee-keeper |
| 4-20 |
The Bee-keeper |
| 4-21 |
Edith Sitwell Discussing Heart And Mind |
| 4-22 |
Heart And Mind |
| 4-23 |
Still Falls The Rain |
| 5-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 5-2 |
A Visit To America, An Irreverant Preamble |
| 5-3 |
The Bards / By Walter de la Mare |
| 5-4 |
Master And Bos'n Song / By W.H. Auden |
| 5-5 |
As I Walked Out One Evening / By W.H. Auden |
| 5-6 |
Chard Witlow : Mr. T.S. Eliot's Sunday Evening Broadcast Postscript / By Henry Reed |
| 5-7 |
Naming Of Parts / By Henry Reed |
| 5-8 |
The Owl / By Edward Thomas |
| 5-9 |
Broken Appointment / By Thomas Hardy |
| 5-10 |
To Lizbie Browne / By Thomas Hardy |
| 5-11 |
In Death Divided / By Thomas Hardy |
| 5-12 |
An Irreverant Introduction |
| 5-13 |
The Traveler's Curse After Misdirection, Translated From The Welsh |
| 5-14 |
A Glass Of Beer / By James Stephens |
| 5-15 |
One Poet Visits Another / By W.H. Davies |
| 5-16 |
An Introduction To Thomas Hardy |
| 5-17 |
To Lizbie Browne / By Thomas Hardy |
| 5-18 |
The Ruined Maid / By Thomas Hardy |
| 5-19 |
Lent / By W.R. Rodgers |
| 5-20 |
Song / By Alun Lewis |
| 5-21 |
To My Son Aged Eight / By John Betjeman |
| 5-22 |
As I Walked Out One Evening / Byw. H. Auden |
| 5-23 |
Master And Bos'n Song / By W.H. Auden |
| 5-24 |
Passing The Graveyard / Andrew Young |
| 5-25 |
In Tara's Halls / By W.B. Yeats |
| 5-26 |
The Three Bushes / By W.B. Yeats |
| 5-27 |
Lapis Lazuli / By W.B. Yeats |
| 5-28 |
This Side Of The Truth / By Dylan Thomas |
| 5-29 |
In My Craft Or Sullen Art / By Dylan Thomas |
| 6-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 6-2 |
The Speech Of Oedipus At Colonus / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-3 |
Three Things / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-4 |
The Circus Animals / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-5 |
Leda And The Swan / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-6 |
Solomon And The Witch / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-7 |
Long-legged Fly / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-8 |
The Three Bushes / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-9 |
The Dialogue Of Self And Soul (excerpt) / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-10 |
For Anne Gregory / By W.B. Yeats |
| 6-11 |
The Libertine / By Louis MacNeice |
| 6-12 |
News Of The World II / By George Barker |
| 6-13 |
At The Keyhole / By Walter de la Mare |
| 6-14 |
A Novelette / By Louis MacNeice |
| 6-15 |
A Woman's History / By W.H. Davies |
| 6-16 |
Whales, Weep Not / By D.H. Lawrence |
| 6-17 |
September 1, 1939 / By W.H. Auden |
| 6-18 |
I Knock At The Door, Chapter II (excerpt) / By Sean O'Casey |
| 6-19 |
Watchman, What Of The Night? From Nightwood / By Djuna Barnes |
| 7-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 7-2 |
The Collier / By Vernon Watkins |
| 7-3 |
Child Lovers / By W.H. Davies |
| 7-4 |
Sacco Writes To His Son / By Alun Lewis |
| 7-5 |
The Child On The Cliffs / By Edward Thomas |
| 7-6 |
Strange Meeting (parts One And Two) / By Wilfred Owen |
| 7-7 |
John Kinsella's Lament From Mrs. Mary Moore / By W.B. Yeats |
| 7-8 |
The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo / By Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| 7-9 |
The Ship Of Death / By D.H. Lawrence |
| 7-10 |
Polly Perkins / Anonymous |
| 7-11 |
Welsh Incident / By Robert Graves |
| 7-12 |
Counting The Beats / By Robert Graves |
| 7-13 |
Lift Boy / By Robert Graves |
| 7-14 |
Old Man / By Edward Thomas |
| 7-15 |
Naming Of Parts / By Henry Reed |
| 7-16 |
O Boys! O Boys! / By Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| 7-17 |
My Dark-headed Kathchen / By John Manifold |
| 7-18 |
Evening In The Sanitarium / By Louise Bogan |
| 7-19 |
Parody 'I Climb The Stairs After A Tedious Masquerade ... ' / By Patrick Boland |
| 7-20 |
Senex / By John Betjeman |
| 7-21 |
On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man / By John Betjeman |
| 7-22 |
The Day Set For Our Wedding / Donagh MacDonagh |
| 7-23 |
The Flying Bum / By William Plomer |
| 8-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 8-2 |
King Lear, Act I, Scene 4, Beginning "How Now, My Pretty Knave, How Dost Thou?" / By William Shakespeare |
| 8-3 |
King Lear, Act Ii, Scene 4, Beginning "Hear Me My Lord" / By William Shakespeare |
| 8-4 |
King Lear, Act Iii, Scene 2 / By William Shakespeare |
| 8-5 |
King Lear, Act Iv, Scene 7, Beginning "Where Have I Been?" / By William Shakespeare |
| 8-6 |
The Duchess Of Malfi, Act Iv, Scene.2, Beginning "I Am Come To Tell You Your Brother Hath Intended You Some Sport" / By John Webster |
| 8-7 |
Paradise Lost Book I. 242-270 / By John Milton |
| 8-8 |
Paradise Lost Book I. 315-330 / By John Milton |
| 8-9 |
Paradise Lost Book I. 622-663 / By John Milton |
| 8-10 |
Paradise Lost Book II. 430-466 / By John Milton |
| 8-11 |
Paradise Lost Book II. 681-877 / By John Milton |
| 8-12 |
Paradise Lost Book II. 817-844 / By John Milton |
| 8-13 |
Paradise Lost Book II. 968-987 / By John Milton |
| 8-14 |
Comus 331-342 / By John Milton |
| 8-15 |
Comus 366-385 / By John Milton |
| 8-16 |
Comus 407-475 / By John Milton |
| 8-17 |
Comus 586-608 / By John Milton |
| 8-18 |
Dr. Faustus, "Ah, Faustus, Now Hast Thou But One Bare Hour To Live ..." / By Christopher Marlowe |
| 9-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 9-2 |
Under Milk Wood Part 1 |
| 9-3 |
Under Milk Wood Part 2 |
| 9-4 |
Under Milk Wood Part 3 |
| 10-1 |
Billy Collins introduction |
| 10-2 |
Under Milk Wood Part 4 |
| 10-3 |
Return Journey To Swansea (full Cast) |
| 10-4 |
On Reading Poetry Aloud, A Bbc Talk By Dylan Thomas |
| 10-5 |
If My Head Hurt A Hair's Foot |
| 10-6 |
On Reading Poetry Aloud, A Bbc Talk By Dylan Thomas Continued |
| 10-7 |
Poem In October (It Was My Thirtieth Year) |
| 10-8 |
From Adventures In The Skin Trade : Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged One Hundred |
| 10-9 |
The Force That Through The Green Fuse |
| 11-1 |
Billy Collins Introduction |
| 11-2 |
Adventures In The Skin Trade, Chapter I, A Fine Beginning, Part 4 (beginning) |
| 11-3 |
Adventures In The Skin Trade, Chapter I, Part 4 (conclusion) |
| 11-4 |
Chapter II, Plenty Of Furniture, Part 1 (beginning) |
| 11-5 |
Chapter II, Part 1 (conclusion) |
| 11-6 |
Chapter II, part 2 |
| 11-7 |
Chapter II, part 3 |
| 11-8 |
Chapter II, part 4 |
