Movies: Simon Armitage

  • 2014
    Great Poets: In Their Own Words

    Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014)

    Great Poets: In Their Own Words

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    A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets....

    Great Poets: In Their Own Words
  • 2013
    Speeches That Shook the World

    Speeches That Shook the World (2013)

    Speeches That Shook the World

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    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. Examining the speeches that provoked radical change, surprised pundits or shocked listeners, poet Simon Armitage...

    Speeches That Shook the World
  • 2015
    The Raft of the Medusa

    The Raft of the Medusa (2015)

    The Raft of the Medusa

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    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....

    The Raft of the Medusa
  • 2010
    Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

    Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey (2010)

    Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

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    Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the g...

    Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey
  • 2006
    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue (2006)

    Out of the Blue

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    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 9.11 attacks on America....

    Out of the Blue
  • 2015
    Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster

    Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (2015)

    Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster

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    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. Adapted for television from the poetry ...

    Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
  • 1998
    Drinking for England

    Drinking for England (1998)

    Drinking for England

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    Explores the importance of an attitudes towards consumption of alcohol in English society by following five subjects through interviews, recitals of poetry, and song....

    Drinking for England
  • 2015
    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015)

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death

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    Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision....

    Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
  • 2010
    Climate of Change

    Climate of Change (2010)

    Climate of Change

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    "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. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Af...

    Climate of Change
  • 2009
    BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2009)

    BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    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. The poem has got just about everything - it is an action-packed adventure, a...

    BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 2011
    The Pendle Witch Child

    The Pendle Witch Child (2011)

    The Pendle Witch Child

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    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. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother...

    The Pendle Witch Child
  • 2007
    Songbirds

    Songbirds (2007)

    Songbirds

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    Women in an English prison use musical therapy to deal with their life behind bars....

    Songbirds
  • 2017
    Last Words

    Last Words (2017)

    Last Words

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    C finds love through a chance encounter in this emotive, witty and deeply visual reimagining of a poem by Simon Armitage....

    Last Words
  • 2003
    Feltham Sings

    Feltham Sings (2003)

    Feltham Sings

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    A documentary film crew go into Feltham young offenders prison where the teenagers who left are 75% likely to re-offend. The film talks to a handful of inmates about life in prison and how they got there in the first place. Oh yeah - and it's a music...

    Feltham Sings
  • 2021
    A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go?

    A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go? (2021)

    A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go?

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    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....

    A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go?
  • 2014
    Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide

    Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide (2014)

    Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide

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    Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas is the rock star of 20th-century poetry. But for Welsh poet Owen Sheers, his tempestuous life often obscures the power of his poetry. Sheers takes us on a journey that reveals Dylan T...

    Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide
  • 2007
    The Not Dead

    The Not Dead (2007)

    The Not Dead

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    Interviews with ex-soldiers who have served in recent conflicts, many of them now suffering PTSD. But they survived while their mates were killed. They are The Not Dead. After listening to their experiences and their problems, Simon Armitage writes a...

    The Not Dead