Ron Hull Remembers: Anyone for Tennyson? With Ruby Dee

Air Date: 04/27/2015

In this Anyone for Tennyson? episode featuring poets of the south, actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee performs "The Silence," by poet John Gould Fletcher. In the late 1960s, NET produced the first-ever series celebrating poetry on television. It was called Anyone for Tennyson? Through three seasons, and over 70 programs, the series featured famous stage and screen actors performing classic works of poetry.