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Date: 1998 (Production)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Colin Izod

Synopsis: A 5-part unit which features selected poets and poems from the Northern Examinations and Assessment Board's GCSE English and English Literature Anthology issued in 1998 and intended for first examination in the year 2000. The programmes feature the poets themselves and well-known personalities reading and discussing the texts, with an emphasis on the English literary heritage, and focusing on the critical evaluation of the poetry. Their titles and subjects are: Simon Armitage; Carol Ann Duffy; Ted Hughes; Hearts and partners - poems about love and sex; When the going gets tough - poems on death, fear and resistance.

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Production Company: Double Exposure North, Commissioning Company: Channel Four Learning, Associate Sponsor: Northern Examinations and Assessment Board, Producer: Colin Izod