High Windows

Across ten programmes and ten poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits Philip Larkin's work in his centenary year.

Episode five:

Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem 'High Windows'.

'High Windows' was described by one reviewer as speaking 'plainly of a feeling of exclusion from sexual happiness’. But does its swearing, and its transcendent imagery - 'the deep blue air' - still hold a charge for us today?

Producer: Faith Lawrence
Mixed by: Sue Stonestreet