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Simon Robert Armitage, CBE, FRSL is an English poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is also professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and succeeded Geoffrey Hill as Oxford Professor of Poetry when he was elected to the four year part time appointment from 2015–2019.
Total trailers found: 19
10 October 2015
Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.
06 November 2013
Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts.
31 October 2003
A documentary film crew go into Feltham young offenders prison where the teenagers who left are 75% likely to re-offend.
12 May 2010
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India.
04 June 2009
Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author.
10 June 2021
A powerful and moving examination of the pandemic, using poetry as a central narrative and featuring people from around the country who tell us their stories of life under Covid-19.
18 April 2015
After months of continuous rain, all coastal areas of the UK are flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their flooded farm, cut off from any contact with the world outside.
12 November 2007
Interviews with ex-soldiers who have served in recent conflicts, many of them now suffering PTSD. But they survived while their mates were killed.
19 January 2007
Women in an English prison use musical therapy to deal with their life behind bars.
08 March 2012
Poet Simon Armitage explains how he is going behind the scenes of some of his poems to help readers understand and visualize how they are created.
11 September 2006
Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.
08 November 2010
Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'.
17 August 2011
The extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl.
11 October 2015
In 2007, Sophie Lancaster was beaten to death because of her appearance. Her story is told through a sequence of poems by Simon Armitage and through the interviews made by her mother in the wake of the tragedy.
17 August 2010
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the great national hero he is usually considered to be.
10 August 2014
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.
10 November 2017
C finds love through a chance encounter in this emotive, witty and deeply visual reimagining of a poem by Simon Armitage.
27 October 1998
Explores the importance of an attitudes towards consumption of alcohol in English society by following five subjects through interviews, recitals of poetry, and song.
01 January 2014
Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas is the rock star of 20th-century poetry.
