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Read by Harold Pinter, Neil Dudgeon, Samuel West + 1 other
When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know…
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 Harold Pinter, Deborah Findlay & Freddie Fox
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the…
She kept her songs, they kept so little space, The covers pleased her: One bleached from lying in a sunny place, One…
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 Marianne Faithfull, Dominic West & Patrick Kennedy
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid…
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 & Sinéad Cusack
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And…
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 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…
