Stop All The Clocks: WH Auden In The Age Of Anxiety

Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work.

Following surges of popularity – from featuring in Four Weddings And A Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11 – Low reveals how Auden’s poetry helps us to better understand the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live.

Writers Alan Bennett, Polly Clark, Alexander Mccall Smith and Richard Curtis along with poets James Fenton and Paul Muldoon share their passion for Auden, and celebrate the impact of his work.

Today, BBC2, 9pm