‘Real artists are not nice people,’ Auden wrote. ‘All their best feelings go into their work and life has the residue.’

An evening focussed on the great 20^th century poet who described himself as “looking like an unmade bed”.  Love, religion, politics and wit, W. H. Auden felt passionate about them all. Introduced by New Zealand producer and scholar Chris Walshaw, and read by 3 of Berlin’s foremost professional English voices.

devised and presented by Chris Walshaw

read by Shaun Lawton, Dulcie Smart and Roger Tebb