This Friday I am flying to Lexington, Kentucky, to film an interview as part of a new documentary on the great Catholic poet, Francis Thompson. By a providential coincidence, Brendan King has just forwarded me this recitation of Thompson’s most celebrated poem, “The Hound of Heaven”, by the great actor, Richard Burton.
 
Personally, I find Burton’s delivery a little too rushed and breathless but the experience of his stentorian voice incarnating Thompson’s penitentially purgatorial words is worth a few minutes of anyone’s time.