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In consequence, we saw the funeral from Four Weddings where "Stop all the clocks..." is read. After 9/11, we were reminded, Auden's "September 1, 1939" became "the mourning song of New York", not least for these words: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return." "Who can see any footage of any of the century's monumental inhumanities," he wondered rhetorically, "without almost hearing as a soundtrack, as it were, his 'Musée des Beaux Arts'?" (The names Ant and Dec sprang to mind.) But if TSBS, which I often complain looks old-fashioned and complacent, can do programmes like this, it truly deserves an earlier time slot and repeats on ITV3 or 4.
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Breathing Life Into Dead Poets
Television
Breathing life into dead poetsMelvyn Bragg may deprive ITV of its reputation as the stupid channelThe South Bank ShowITV1Difficulty became the unexpected theme of an excellent opening on 18 Februar...See the full content of this document
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