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