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Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of common clay I had climbed the higher…
Read by Ralph Fiennes
Our earth in 1969 Is not the planet I call mine, The world, I mean, that gives me strength To hold off…
Read by Edna O’Brien & Patrick Kennedy
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…
Read by Eileen Atkins, Lily James, Joanna David + 2 others
Let me tell you a little story About Miss Edith Gee; She lived in Clevedon Terrace At number 83. She’d a slight…
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 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 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 Grey Gowrie & Sinéad Cusack
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks…
Read by Mariella Frostrup, Edna O’Brien, Sinéad Cusack + 3 others
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,…
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 Alan Cox & Tom Hollander
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory;…
