Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity.

With

David Moody

Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York

Fran Brearton

Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast

And

Mark Ford

Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

First broadcast on 22nd December 2016