There have been some great @cheltfestivals moments over the years, but one of the most electric hours in the festival’s history was the appearance of @lewis_damian and Helen McRory, writes @aholgate. thetimes.co.uk/article/damian…
The married couple rarely appeared together. But both were passionate poetry lovers, and they had agreed to help a friend, the poetry impresario Allie Esiri, by reading a selection of love poems from Esiri’s collection of classic verse, The Love Book.
Funny, tender, poignant and often heartbreaking, the 50 minutes that followed left the people who attended the reading spellbound.
“After Helen died, Allie and I were reminiscing about the event and kicking ourselves that there was no recording,” said Damian Lewis. 
“In fact there was. Not film, but we discovered a very good quality audio recording and got to thinking about how we could share it with a wider audience.””
Now, thanks to Lewis, that recording has been made available on the Stories of Our Times podcast as a tribute by him to his wife, after her death in April at the age of 52.
Listen to the podcast: pod.fo/e/eeae4
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