I recall seeing him going for a climb in North Wales with, I think, Joe Brown. He arrived on his motorbike wearing an open faced helmet with a pull down visor and a coil of rope slung across his body; the visor was only down so he could keep smoking as he was riding along. An interesting character, and exceptional climber, and a great loss. I doubt we will ever see his like again, and the world is a lesser place because of that.

Excellent! Thank you 😊

Breathtaking colossus.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

Thanks so much for posting this. It is wonderful to stumble on such a gem every once in a while

Boiling words

The interviewer talked too much

this has long been a dear favourite, saw him do it live once with Hugh Lupton which was really special

Excellent, thank you for these!

Aaah so good

I dont miss the water .. ots weird sometimes how i just dont miss it. ❤

so happy! so beautiful!!! nice wave

Don and Joe were my heroes in the 60s 70s great technical climbers, I find the interviewer slightly obnoxious in the way he was talking over him and not letting him finish, and as for the other international climbers slagging him off not one would say it to his face don always carried his weight

Don Whillans....... My childhood hero and a ferocious talent unequalled in many ways.

Thanks for the upload. Great interview

Abridged, unfortunately. Sad waste of a fine voice.

Thank You, Love

Nice one ,

If this interview was conducted a little better we the listeners could've benefited so much more. Quite surprised that Don didn't tell the interviewer that there's pauses in music.

Can't find You and I, A Place in the Sun, a Ted Hughes poem that a pal of mine pass me. Will have to buy the whole Ted Hughes Poetry to find it⁉️ ➖wish I could find it mentioned somewhere...Ted Hughes, as Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas in Under the Milky Way, is a real marvel. Have to hear Hughes reading his own poetry.

Daniel Massey was soooo talented. Absolutely love his voice. ❤️❤️

Firstly, hello Oliver borne of sea and roe. Secondly, here is a list from Goodreads user Brendan Shea who has sorted this collection, By Heart, alphabetically by first name of each poet. This isn't the order they appear. 1. Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle 3. Andrew Young: Field Glasses 4. Anonymous: Donal Og 5. Anonymous: Mad Tom's Song 6. D. H. Lawrence: Piano 7. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London 8. Dylan Thomas: Poem In October 9. Edward Thomas: The Combe 10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument 11. Emily Dickinson: 'A Wind That Rose' 12. Emily Dickinson: 'Like Rain It Sounded' 13. Emily Dickinson: 'There Came A Wind' 14. Emily Dickinson: 'There's A Certain Slant Of Light' 15. Emily Dickinson: 'This World Is Not Conclusion' 16. Ezra Pound: The Return 17. F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones 18. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars 19. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid 20. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover 22. Housman: 'On Wenlock Edge' 23. John Betjeman: A Subaltern's Love-Song 24. John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30 25. John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter 26. John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls 27. John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered 28. John Donne: Song 29. John Donne: The Relique 30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 31. John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer 32. John Keats: To Autumn 33. John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont 34. Keith Douglas: How To Kill 35. Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky 36. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 37. Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2) 38. R. S. Thomas: Here 39. Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 40. Robert Frost: Provide, Provide 41. Robert Frost: Spring Pools 42. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening 43. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken 44. Robert Frost: The Runaway 45. Rudyard Kipling: James I 46. Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods 47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan 48. Seamus Heaney: The Skunk 49. Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning 50. Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water 51. T. S. Eliot: Death By Water 52. T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange 53. T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man 54. T. S. Eliot: Marina 55. T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax 56. T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi 57. Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff 58. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush 59. Thomas Wyatt: 'They Flee From Me' 60. W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts 61. W. B. Yeats: 'A Woman's Beauty' 62. W. B. Yeats: 'Come Let Us Mock At The Great' 63. W. B. Yeats: Death 64. W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916 65. W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge 66. W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan 67. W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement 68. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming 69. W. E. Henley: Invictus 70. W. H. Auden: 'Carry Her Over The Water' 71. W. H. Auden: 'Stop All The Clocks' 72. W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome 73. W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty 74. Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph 75. Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth 76. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est 77. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting 78. William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence 79. William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell 80. William Blake: The Sick Rose 81. William Blake: The Smile 82. William Blake: The Tyger 83. William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big 84. William Shakespeare: 'Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun' 85. William Shakespeare: 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds' 86. William Shakespeare: 'My Love Is As A Fever' 87. William Shakespeare: My Mistress' Eyes 88. William Shakespeare: 'Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul' 89. William Shakespeare: 'Other Slow Arts' 90. William Shakespeare: 'Our Revels Now Are Ended' 91. William Shakespeare: 'That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold' 92. William Shakespeare: 'The Heavens Themselves, The Planets' 93. William Shakespeare: 'The Witches' Song' from Macbeth 94. William Shakespeare: 'Tir'd With All These, For Restful Death I Cry' 95. William Shakespeare: 'To Be, Or Not To Be' from Hamlet 96. William Shakespeare: 'To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow' 97. William Wordsworth: 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' 98. William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass 99. William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper 100. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey 101. William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge

Daniel Massey is the perfect narrator for this

This is fantastic stuff mate, keep them coming!

'The thing is I'm very reluctant to put em in because of the hard work involved' hahaha you can always rely on Whillans for an A grade dry comment!

Excellent evening spent listening to this eating tea brack and having a turf fire gently smoldering itself to death . Rip Mick

Great film thank you .

Is this really the inimitable Ted Hughes? Thanks

Can I get the poem platform 1 by Ted Hughes please I need it ?

He saved many people's lives by not rising his or anyone elses

This is the best ,Daniel Massey is the best reader iv ever heard

Such a happiness to listen to it every day ! Thank you very much !🙏🙏🙏

Ken Wilson doing this interview if I recognize his voice.

Thanks for this Rob P.

Thanks for your sharing,I love the beautiful poems

Thank you so much, this heap of gems read by Ted is a treasure indeed!🙏👌

So glad I stumbled unto this video ... but how did I not realize before that the song the forg-choir sing in the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is actually taken from Macbeth? I doff my hat

This is wonderful to hear again. I too had this on tape. I don’t suppose you have TH’s introduction do you?

I really wanted to listen to this, having recently finding out about Don Whillans from Moorland biker on you tube. However I found the interviewer was unbearable,wanting to impose his views over Don Whillans plus constantly interrupting and talking over. A good interviewer brings out the best from his subject but this guy hasn't got a clue.

Thank you very much. I have had the casette but the player is now broken. Happy to find it now. There was a foreword by Hughes which you have edited out. Nevermind the poems still are here. Thanks again.

Hello everyone! Hope you all support my poetry.

1:28:12 2:14:08

What, no Ted Hughes! He read Sylvia Plath and many fine examples but not one from the man himself.

Salford? Is that where he was from?

Thank you for this reading. Back in the 1980s there was a cassette tape with a title something like "Your Favourite Poems", read by the greats, Alec Guinnes, Peter Ustinov, etc, of a subset of the poems that you have included here.

Great video. 'The Villain' is also an excellent read.

I do have some misgivings about it though as it seems to add phrases or miss them entirely, the phrase stating that Malone was an Irishman and was a sub human was completely made up, He did say subspecies meaning journalist or non scientist but he never said Celtic subspecies. Not to mention that in the book Challenger i think was meant to be Scottish so he himself is also a Celt.

This is a far better version than any of the others I’ve heard!!!

this is a treasure! that voice is has handsome as that face

he reminds me of my uncle whos no longer around - tough as nails, funny as hell, smarter than he'd like you to think and a bit of a bastard as well

I partnered Don on his last climb in July 1985. We climbed Il Sigaro near Lecco in the Dolomites. See full story on my KZbin video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2qtfJeenpt1nrc