That Life In Verse
The Poetry Season continues…
“I wanted to be a comedian, and the comedy I enjoyed wasn’t poetry, it was all telly. Writing poems obviously served a purpose, but I really wasn’t tortured. They were just something I did.” There’s an interview with Rob on The Times website.
From Radio Times:
My Life in Verse: Robert Webb
Friday 05 June 9:00pm – 10:00pm BBC2
Robert Webb goes on a journey to find out more about the poem The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and the poet who captured his imagination at a young age, TS Eliot. He returns to the Lincolnshire classroom where he first heard Prufrock and visits the school hall where he made his first forays into comedy, as well as travelling to Paris where he discovers that the young TS Eliot shocked his respectable American family by spending a year in the famously decadent city.
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