Sir Ian McKellen, Catherine McCormack, Dame Glenda Jackson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Mark Rylance, Prunella Scales, Connie Booth, Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Stella Gonet, John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Joss Ackland, Leo Sayer, Emma Fielding, John Sesions, Ioan Gruffudd, Jenny Agutter, Michael Williams, Michael Caine, Timothy West, Terence Stamp, Michael Maloney, David Suchet, Art Malik, HRH The Duchess of Kent, Felicity Kendal, Calrk Peters, Janet Suzman, Hannah Gordon, Robert Lindsay, Samuel West, Charles Dance, Pete Postlethwaite, William Houston, Dame Judi Dench, Robert Powell, Lord Owen, Ed Bishop, Robert Hardy, readers

Presents an anthology of verse that is the comic, tender and telling story of life's seven ages - from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech, The Seven Ages of Man , performed by Sir Ian McKellan, are 150 great poems from all ages - from Chaucer to Ted Hughes

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