Philip Larkin. Monitor :Down Cemetery Rd Pt1

[ashburnhouse]

Larkin's voice is so soothing and imperturbable.

[arthurzen69]

Rare gems.

[KittusTheMighty]

"I'm a miserable sort of fellow, writing a sort of welfare state sub-poetry". Makes you love him all the more, doesn't it?

[thewordofgord]

marvellous stuff! thanks for posting! had no idea this existed.

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[marconibungalows]

Two of my great favourites. Two of the best. Thank you for this.

[eccentrixietea]

this video got mentioned in the Independent today by David Baddiel (can't post link but the article's on the Indy website). Can't wait to watch it, thanks!

[wiltonian]

I went to Hull University in 1964 and saw Philip Larkin around and about. This Monitor programme shows the Hull I remember. What a treat it is to watch and to listen to. Heartfelt thanks for uploading it.

[masercot]

Philip Larkin is one of my favorite poets. My favorite poem by him starts with, "My mother, who hated thunderstorms, held up each summer day and shook it our suspiciously, lest swarms of grape-dark clouds were lurking there"...beautiful...

[jackcoltman]

This is so beautiful. Thankyou.

[BritAU2TH]

This is Hull Docks in its hey day. 

[tain36]

Saw this many years ago and thought it was lost forever. Amazing to see it again. Thanks so much for posting.

[BarmyBookworm]

Thanks for all the comments,glad people have enjoyed the documentary. :)

[transonicbuoy1]

Next time I go back to the UK, I`m taking my motorbike out of the barn, getting on the road, heading south, to East Yorkshire. And putting flowers on Philip`s little grave. Yes.

[wmaschmidt]

To add to the others, many thanks for posting this.

[normandeplume]

Thank you. I have been waiting this for very many years...

[TRUESTAR188]

hay thnxs for uploading dis we have to do a project on a poet for school and me n my friend choose philip larkin dis vid been big help thnxs =D xx

[lillabullero]

many many thanks for uploading this!

[laurencecooper]

great thanks

[transonicbuoy1]

I left the UK a year ago - nasty culture. And then I see this: bloody genius. Thanks for posting. The extraordinary in the very ordinary. I'm saving this all up for a big cry, alone, sometime, on a Japanese mountain.

[zootsoot2006]

@transonicbuoy1, nasty compared to what?

[loveridgelaps]

I've been waiting for this for years. Thank you.

[ryko26]

can you imagine the BBC being capable of producing a programme of this quality today?

[baudelaire123]

yes, you're sadly right, I think. A living, white European male, rather make that two white males talking about Art? No, that's not going to happen now.

[bollockowithalob]

Thanks for uploading.

[StraightUpIMO]

John Betjeman read Larkin's poetry better than he read it himself, judging from this. 'Here' is particularly well done.

Thanks for putting this up.

Apologies for messy deletion of botched earlier post. :P

[BarmyBookworm]

Yes, I agree Straightup. :)

[teamcrumb]

@StraightUpIMO no he didn't.

[Bakesy30]

Excellent! Really enjoyed this and good to see some good quality film for a change! :)

[IOWpat]

Great footage. Thanks for putting it on here :)