The Waste Land on BBC Radio's In Our Time

This episode of Melvyn Bragg's BBC talk show In Our Time is a very useful introduction to the longish poem by T[homas]. S[tearns]. Eliot we are studying this week and next. One thing you get a sense of from popular - OK, quasi-popular - broadcasts like this is the sheer importance of The Waste Land as an event in twentieth-century Anglophone literary culture. In Our Time does programs on things like the Battle of Hastings, or Einstein's general theory of relativity, or Watergate; this discussion of The Waste Land addresses the poem itself but also why it has been so influential.