Matthew Macfadyen Explores Poetry and Prose

Matthew Macfadyen is currently on BBC Radio 3:

Sunday 1 May 2011, 22:15 on BBC Radio 3 - Self Improvement

Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen explore through poetry and prose a subject that has exercised some of the greatest minds of all time: self-improvement. What is the value of seeking out knowledge, physical improvement and enlightenment through self-teaching and motivation? With words of wisdom from a variety of sources across the ages including Confucius, Kant, Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte and Alan Bennett, together with music by Elgar, Clementi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Bob Dylan.

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