drunken man's praise of sobriety / (Elvis Costello) (1:06). No second Troy / (Bill Nighty) (0:47) -- The circus animals' desertion (2:28) -- Adam's curse / (Lisa Dwan) (2:32) -- Sixteen dead men / (Olivia O'Leary) (0:48) -- Sailing to Byzantium / (Edna O'Brien) (2:37) -- Long-legged fly / (Roy Foster) (1:37) -- The fisherman / (Richard E. Grant) (1:37) -- The second coming / (Dominic West) (1:31) -- September 1913 / (Bono) (1:26) -- Remorse for intemperate speech / (Noel Gallagher) (0:49) -- The lake isle of Innisfree / (Tom Hollander) (1:20) -- The stares nest by my window / (Colin Farrell) (1:11) -- To a child dancing upon the shore / (Sting) (1:06) -- When you are old / (Damian Lewis) (0:58) -- Led and the swan / (Anne Enright) (0:56) -- An Irish airman forsees his death / (Gay Byrne) (0:56) -- Brown Penny / (Kathleen Byrne) (0:53) -- The four ages of man / (Angus Deayton) (0:36) -- The folly of being comforted / (Sting) (0:51) -- The indian upon God / (Bill Nighy) (1:38) -- Crazy Jane on God / (Van Morrison) (0:43) -- Down by the Salley Gardens / (Tom Hollander) (0:41) -- When you are old / (When You Are Old) (0:38) -- Mad as the mist and the snow / (Van Morrison) (0:39) -- He wishes for the cloths of Heaven / (Colin Farrell) (0:38) -- That the night come / (Stephen Fry) (0:32) -- On being asked for a war poem / (Bono) (0:25) -- The wheel / (Neil Jordan) (0:19) -- Yeats remembered / (Pete Briquette) (30:00) -- September 1913/Mad as the mist and snow / (Bono) (6:36) -- A drunken man's praise of sobriety / (Elvis Costello) (1:06).
Summary:
Various celebries read poems by W.B. Yeats. From "A fanatic heart : Bob Geldof on W.B. Yeats." Includes three musical selections.
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