In Our Time: Robert Graves

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Graves (1895-1985). He once declared that from the age of 15 poetry had been his ruling passion and that he lived his life according to poetic principles, writing in prose only to pay the bills and that he bred the pedigree dogs of his prose to feed the cats of his poetry. Yet it's for his prose that he's most famous today, including I Claudius, his account of the debauchery of Imperial Rome, and Goodbye to All That, the unforgettable memoir of his early life including the time during the First World War when he was badly wounded at the Somme