The Waste Land and Modernity

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot’s seminal poem The Waste Land and its ambivalence to the modern world of technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged around it.

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• Steve Connor 3 episodes
  
• Lawrence Rainey No other episodes
  

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Hello. In October 1922, the latest edition of London's literary magazine, The Criterion, hit the shelves.