Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy

Overview

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Robert Robinson. Tonight's programme includes: Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy A personal view by C. Day Lewis. "Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed and thin, Here was the former door Where the dead feet walked in" This film was made in Hardy's own country of Wessex: C. Day Lewis, poet and lifelong admirer of Hardy, talks of the importance to him of Hardy's sense of time and his compassion for human beings.