Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons´ perceptive reading illuminatesthe poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", through the post-war desolation of "TheWaste Land" and the spiritual struggle of "Ash-Wednesday", to the enduringcharm of "Old Possum´s Book of Practical Cats". The Spectator praised JeremyIrons´s interpretation as ´so accessible, reading Eliot as if finding his words forthe first time, grappling with them, relishing them, using them to express feelingsthat we all share as we struggle to accept, to recognize or relinquish´.Dame Eileen Atkins also appears alongside Jeremy Irons in the reading of"The Waste Land".