A Cento is poem made up of lines from other works. This is currently being shown on the BBC highlighting their new season and shows how well they can be crafted. It includes lines from John Keats, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, James Elroy Flecker, Walter Savage Landor, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alison Chisholm, who devised it.
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The reader is Peter Capaldi, most famous for his role as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It (he's briefly in the trailer too)
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