Contents:
Robert Donat reads his choices:
1. Rudyard Kipling: The Way through the Woods   
2. Robert Bridges: Nightingales
3. John Keats: Bright Star 
4. Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci   
5. Keats: Ode to Melancholy
6. Keats: When I Have Fears 
7. Percy Shelley: Adonais  (in memory Keats)  

Laurie Lee & James Mason
8. Laurie Lee: The Abandoned Shade (author)  
9. Laurie Lee: Day of these Days (author) 
10. Robert Browning: The Bishop Orders his Tomb (James Mason)  
 
Alec Guinness’ choices
11. Edith Sitwell: I do Like to be Beside the Seaside (Façade)   
12. Edith Sitwell: Polka (Façade)
13. Hilaire Belloc: Tarantella   
14. Walter James Turner: Romance (‘Chimborazo Cotopaxi’)  
15. Robert Graves: Through Nightmare   
16. W.H. Auden: Hearing of Harvest, Rotting in the Valley
17. Anon: Clerk Saunders  
18. Anon: King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
19. Wm.Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 3 – Act 2, Scene 5: Soliloquy
20. Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s  
21. Ogden Nash: Serviette in a Lovely Home  
22. Arthur Hugh Clough: Spectator Ab Extra
23. William Blake: Night 
24. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo & the Golden Echo   

War Poets (selection)
25. David Jones: In Parenthesis (excerpt)(C Day Lewis, Hugh Burden, John Stride, Gary Watson)
26. Robert Graves: The Survivor (V.C. Clinton-Baddeley)  
27. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting (Alec Guinness)  
28. Wilfred Owen: Arms & the Boy (Carleton Hobbs) 
29. Wilfred Owen: Futility (Robert Donat)
30. Rupert Brooke: The Hill (Robert Donat)  
31. Siegfried Sassoon: The Death Bed (Robert Donat)   
32. Henry Reed: Naming of Parts (author)