Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

by National Theatre

Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves. With Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins, Richard Eyre, Mike Leigh, Simon McBurney, Ian McEwan, Ben Okri, Simon Russell Beale and Simon Schama, and Kate Allen (Amnesty International UK).

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    Jun 13, 2014 – 2:26
  • Richard Eyre - Sandra's Mobile by Douglas Dunn
    Jun 13, 2014 – 2:16
  • Ian McEwan - An Exequy by Peter Porter
    Jun 10, 2014 – 6:27
  • Mike Leigh - eulogy to a hell of a dame by Charles Bukowski
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  • Simon McBurney: and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
    Jun 2, 2014 – 4:20
  • Melvyn Bragg: Sonnet XXX
    May 29, 2014 – 2:49
  • Richard Dawkins: Last Poems: XL by A. E. Housman
    May 22, 2014 – 3:22
  • Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden
    May 16, 2014 – 2:49
  • Ben Okri: Elegy for Alto by Christopher Okigo
    May 13, 2014 – 6:14
  • Simon Russell Beale: I see a girl draffed by the wrist by Philip Larkin
    May 9, 2014 – 4:38
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    May 9, 2014 – 3:58
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