No One Left And No One Came
'The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came on the bare platform. What I saw was Adlestrop - only the name...'
People remember Edward Thomas's poem and they come on pilgrimage to Adlestrop. Perhaps they read it as children, or when far from home.
Trains no longer come, the sign that Thomas saw now sits in a redundant bus shelter, but the poem lives on.
Thomas died, aged 37, in World War I. The village postmistress tells presenter Anne Harvey, 'He didn't live long enough to know how important his poem would be.'
A beautifully crafted, evocative programme.
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