Robert Powell

From idyllic memories of India to the horrors of the First World War when he became one of the great chroniclers of that time, in his moving, often painfully eloquent stories and poems. He was the great spokesman for his age, a time dominated by a sense of imperial destiny, which was soon to be destroyed for ever.

Rudyard Kipling is one of the most intriguing and controversial of all our great writers. Now 150 years after his birth we explore the many different worlds inhabited by this great storyteller and poet through his autobiographical writings, stories and verse, all interwoven with music of the period.