Night Mail, from 1936, has become a landmark in film-making and combined the talents of the “father of documentary” John Grierson, poet W. H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten. Much imitated ...

Some of WH Auden’s couplets have the familiarity of poetry catchphrases ... such as “Lullaby”, “In Memory of WB Yeats”, “Night Mail”, “September 1, 1939” and “Funeral Blues ...

The mail train is to stop running after 170 years of service, Royal Mail has announced. Here we look at some of the train's high points: Mail trains will be phased out from next month and stopped ...

Poets tell the human stories of those on board the west coast main line Six poets take the train from London to Glasgow, capturing the journey in verse. In 1936, poet WH Auden and composer ...

But last night it ran for the last time. The "Night Mail", the train that W H Auden and T S Eliot made famous in rhyme, and the 1963 Great Train Robbers made famous in crime, is being replaced by ...

Strangely enough, at this time Auden arrived at the school." Mr Smart came across an anonymous poem in the journal entitled "Evening and Night on Primrose Hill". Mr Smart said: "The author Katherine ...