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Read by Samuel West & Deborah Findlay
Come To Sunny Prestatyn Laughed the girl on the poster, Kneeling up on the sand In tautened white satin. Behind her, a…
Read by Harold Pinter
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on the thick…
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It’s more grown-up when…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Patrick Kennedy, Simon Callow + 2 others
Why should not old men be mad? Some have known a likely lad That had a sound fly-fisher’s wrist Turn to a…
Read by Bob Geldof & Grey Gowrie
I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Simon Callow, Bob Geldof + 2 others
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, “He holds her dear,” And shook with hate and fear. But…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 2 others
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his…
Read by Edna O’Brien, Patrick Kennedy & Sinéad Cusack
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we…
Read by Sinéad Cusack & Edna O’Brien
I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 1 other
That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, Quiet the dog, tether the pony To a distant post; Our master Caesar…
Read by Jeremy Irons, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof + 2 others
One that is ever kind said yesterday: ‘Your well-belovéd’s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time…
Read by Edna O’Brien, Rupert Graves, Sinéad Cusack + 1 other
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations –…
