BBC Drama: Jeremy Irons reads The Four Quartets by TS Eliot

Four Quartets is the crowning achievement of TS Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in 20th century poetry, its four parts - ‘Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’ and ‘Little Gidding’ - present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author.

It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

The Four Quartets read by Jeremy Irons, was broadcast on BBC Radio Four on Saturday 18 January, 2014, at 2.30 – 3.45pm with an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald. The producer is Susan Roberts. 

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