T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Jeremy Irons reads Four Quartets, the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet.

Four Quartets containins some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in 20th Century poetry. Across its four parts - 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' - it presents a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. The fact that a private voice was speaking for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy iron's reading is introduced by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.