Arena Season 1, Episode 660

Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens · BBC Four · Monday, December 30

Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney became the finest poet of his generation and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 - but his career also coincided with one of the bloodiest political upheavals of the 20th century, the Troubles in Northern Ireland.