Tracklist:

1. W. H. Auden: The Night Mail (John Laurie)
2. Laurie Lee: April (Laurie Lee)
3. Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol (Frank Duncan)
4. Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose (John Neville)
5. Alec Guinness Reading: (*With Osian Ellis, Harp) E. E. Cummings: Sweet Spring
6. E. E. Cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
7. E. E. Cummings: The Moon Looked Into My Window
8. Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not for Sportive Lays*
9. Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend* 1
10. Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme* 1
11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior* 1
12. Richard Burton Reading: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights 1
13. Thomas Hardy: The Voice 1
14. John Clare: Autumn 1
15. Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd 1
16. Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply 1
17. Bishop Henry King: From Exequy on His Wife 1
18. William Dunbar: From Lament of the Makers 1
19. Robert Graves: Welsh Incident 2
20. John Betjeman Reading Betjeman: The Church's Restoration 2
21. Olympic Girl 2
22. Seaside Golf 2
23. Business Women 2
24. Indoor Games Near Newbury 2
25. How to Get on in Society 2
26. Licorice Fields at Pontefract 2
27. Robert Donat Reading: A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning 2
28. John Betjeman: Death at Leamington 2
29. Coventry Patmore: The Toys 3
30. T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat 3
31. Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake 3
32. Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (Extract) 3
33. WM Shakespeare: On Her Reign (From Henry VIII) 3
34. Shakespeare: 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear No More the Heat of the Sun...) 3
35. William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality 3
36. John Donne: A Devotion (No Man Is An Island) (Orson Welles) 3
37. Langston Hughes: Freedom Train (Paul Robeson) 3
38. Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (Orson Welles)