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Ian Hislops Changing of the Bard (16 May 2009)PDTV(XviD)

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    05/26/2009
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    This torrent was uploaded from www.TheBox.bz (signup is open and free) - the home of all British TV<br /> <br /> Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard<br /> BBC4 - 16 May 2009<br /> <br /> Ian Hislop takes an amused and affecting look at one of the most peculiar offices in the British establishment, that of Poet Laureate. Its 341-year history produces a gloriously eccentric picture of who we are, how we are ruled, what we want to say about ourselves and just how hard it is to do that in verse.<br /> <br /> We know that Poets Laureate write about Royal Weddings but Hislop discovers a whole lot more, such as 534, John Masefield's brilliant poem on the launch of the Queen Mary from the Clydebank shipyards and Nicholas Rowe's New Year's Ode for 1716 dedicated to the Princess of Wales's labour pains. There was Colley Cibber, the Laureate so ashamed of his poor output he adopted a pseudonym and wrote poems attacking himself, and Alfred Tennyson, who wrote the nation's favourite laureate poem, Charge of the Light Brigade.<br /> <br /> ...
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