Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - An Arundel Tomb

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems. Philip Larkin was disappointed by his 'Tomb poem': one of the pivotal details was wrong and another, he discovered, had been invented by a Victorian restorer 500 years later. 'Muddle to the end,' he complained, and yet it is now one of his best-loved and most quoted poems.