Richard Roddis, Clive Pollard

Poetry and Song by the lost generation of World War I and those deeply affected by the conflict.

Composers: George Butterworth, the emblem of lost talent; W Denis Browne and Ernest Farrar, who both left only a handful of pieces.

Poets: Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Francis Ledwidge, Wilfrid Gibson.

Straddling the two art forms and prolific in both, Ivor Gurney survived but later suffered mental breakdown. And Gerald Finzi, pupil of Farrar, champion of Gurney.

Rosalind Williams is an actress and Principal of Cygnet Theatre. Gillian von Fragstein is a singer and reader.