![]() These letters to his confidante and muse Emily Hale have finally unveiled Eliot's hidden heart, and the personal breakdown behind the creation of his most famous work. In January 2020, more than 1000 of Eliot's private letters were unsealed at Princeton University Library, 60 years after they were first deposited there. But in 2020 there were dramatic new revelations which uncovered that, behind Eliot's mask, there was a much more personal story to be found within The Waste Land. Eliot: Into 'The Waste Land', a new documentary uncovering the hidden personal story behind Eliot's creation of his celebrated poem, directed by Susanna White.įor decades, Eliot actively discouraged biographical interpretations of his work, developing an ‘impersonal theory’ of poetry in which the private life of a poet was deemed irrelevant. Later this year on BBC Two and iPlayer is T.S. Taking listeners into the Eliot archive, the feature will contextualise the text and provide insight into Eliot’s own inspirations as well as the story behind the Waste Land. The programme will be preceded by a feature about the poem, with leading Eliot scholars Dr Lyndall Gordon, Professor Mark Ford, Professor Seamus Perry, Professor Stephen Connor and Nancy Fulford, archivist for the T S Eliot Estate. Carefully created to evoke a sense of fractured time, with haunting whispers of catastrophes to come, the sound remains faithful to the themes of anxiety, loss and anger found within the text as well as the uncertainty of the modern age we currently live in. They include the mysterious Madame Sosostris who, in a seedy room, turns the cards a poet and his wife, both miserable in their marriage, waiting for something to happen, and a street prophet with visions of the future finding his faith tested.Ĭapturing the slipperiness and unease of the post-war period, the performance will also feature the work of award-winning sound designer David Thomas. Recorded word for word, the performance features an ensemble cast including the likes of Paul Ready (The Terror Motherland), Maggie Steed (Ten Percent) Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones) and David Haig (My Boy Jack Killing Eve) as they bring the characters from the poem to life. ![]() Permission was granted from the Eliot estate to mark the centenary with this new adaptation. Eliot’s groundbreaking work The Waste Land with a range of programming across the BBC looking at his life and work.īeginning on 10 July on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, He Do The Wasteland In Different Voices will see the poem performed for the first time as if an audio drama, the text unchanged from the original, but with a focus on the collection of voices within it. This year the BBC marks the centenary of T.S. ![]()
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