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Read by Harold Pinter
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 Deborah Findlay, Freddie Fox & Harold Pinter
“This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies, till They moved him.” Flowered curtains, thin…
Read by Freddie Fox & Harold Pinter
“Dockery was junior to you, Wasn’t he?” said the Dean. “His son’s here now.” Death-suited, visitant, I nod. “And do You keep…
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 –…
Read by Edna O’Brien, Bob Geldof, Grey Gowrie + 2 others
O’Driscoll drove with a song The wild duck and the drake From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the drear Hart…
