W.H. Auden reads his thought-provoking lyric 'As I Walked Out One Evening', written in 1937.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain's most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatizations of telling events in the life of W.H. Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden's poetry, notebooks, letters and journals.
Christopher Isherwood shares memories of poet W.H. Auden and gives background information on his own stories. Tape Date: 4/25/1974