A First Class Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Introduction, Part 1

  Andrew Motion
  2:41
• 2
  Introduction, Part 2

  Andrew Motion
  3:43
• 3
  Introduction, Part 3

  Andrew Motion
  3:05
• 4
  Introduction, Part 4

  Andrew Motion
  4:20
• 5
  Introduction, Part 5

  Andrew Motion
  3:06
• 6
  Introduction, Part 6

  Andrew Motion
  1:50
• 7
  Indoor Games Near Newbury
  3:38
• 8
  Station Syren
  1:15
• 9
  Thoughts on ‘The Diary of a Nobody’
  1:31
• 10
  Executive
  1:49
• 11
  Business Girls
  2:21
• 12
  Parliament Hill Fields
  1:59
• 13
  The City
  1:11
• 14
  Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants
  2:20
• 15
  Winthrop Mackworth Redivivus
  3:06
• 16
  Seaside Golf
  1:10
• 17
  Trebetherick
  3:16
• 18
  On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
  1:36
• 19
  For Nineteenth-Century Burials
  0:44
• 20
  Christmas
  2:40
• 21
  Death of King George V
  1:06
• 22
  Hymn
  1:26
• 23
  Our Padre
  1:10
• 24
  Harvest Hymn
  1:21
• 25
  Middlesex
  1:56
• 26
  The Olympic Girl
  1:50
• 27
  In the Public Gardens
  1:10
• 28
  Senex
  1:24
• 29
  Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden
  1:58
• 30
  In a Bath Teashop
  0:29
• 31
  The Cockney Amorist
  1:15
• 32
  An Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Hymn
  1:10
• 33
  A Shropshire Lad
  1:28
• 34
  Guilt
  1:36
• 35
  House of Rest
  2:04
• 36
  Archibald
  2:30
• 37
  Oxford: Sudden Illness at the Bus Stop
  1:30
• 38
  A Child Ill
  1:13
• 39
  Felixstowe, or the Last of Her Order
  2:28
• CD 2
• 1
  Myfanwy
• 2
  Hunter Trials
• 3
  County and Slough
• 4
  Meditation on the A30
• 5
  The Varsity Student’s Rag
• 6
  The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
• 7
  On Seeing an Old Poet in the Cafe Royal
• 8
  A Russell Flint
• 9
  The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
• 10
  Late-Flowering Lust
• 11
  Good-bye
• 12
  Death in Leamington
• 13
  Sun and Fun
• 14
  Uffington
• 15
  The Hon. Sec.
• 16
  Lenten Thoughts on High Anglican
• 17
  Diary of a Church Mouse
• 18
  Wantage Bells
• 19
  The Planster’s Vision
• 20
  Bristol
• 21
  Westgate-on-Sea
• 22
  Dilton Marsh Halt
• 23
  Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station
• 24
  Great Central Railway: Sheffield Victoria to Banbury
• 25
  The Metropolitan Railway
• 26
  Harrow on the Hill
• 27
  Group Life: Letchworth
• 28
  False Security
• 29
  The Costa Blanca
• 30
  Caprice
• 31
  A Subaltern’s Love Song
• 32
  Agricultural Caress
• 33
  In Westminster Abbey
• 34
  Devonshire Street W.I.
• 35
  Preface to ‘High and Low’
• 36
  The Last Laugh
• 37
  Reproof Deserved or After the Lecture

More by John Betjeman

Songs

Songs 2002

The Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman's Britain

The Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman's Britain 1995

Late Flowering Love

Late Flowering Love 1995

Varsity Rag

Varsity Rag 1981

Betjeman’s Banana Blush

Betjeman’s Banana Blush 1974

Late Flowering Love

Late Flowering Love 1974

Release credits

• Andrew Motion
  spoken vocals [1-6]
• Derek Jacobi
  spoken vocals
• Miriam Margolyes
  spoken vocals
• Samuel West
  spoken vocals
• Stephen Fry
  spoken vocals
• Susan Jameson
  spoken vocals

Issues

• A
  (Combined release view)
• A
  A First Class Collection

  2x CD
  7 August 2006