Nobody Told Me to Oil My Boots: Isaac Rosenberg

Two days left to listen to "Nobody Told Me to Oil My Boots", a half hour feature on the less-well-known WWI poet, Isaac Rosenberg, killed in 1918...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/pip/5tf2t/

Sir Antony Sher tells the story of the WWI poet Isaac Rosenberg, whose reputation has been overshadowed by many of his better-known contemporaries but was described by one of them, Siegfried Sassoon, as a genius.

He enlisted as a private to escape the poverty of London's East End and, besides the sufferings of army life, also had to come to terms with the anti-Semitism directed at him by his comrades.

Rosenberg's experiences are illuminated by both Sher's reading of some of his poems and also the letters he wrote to friends and family, read by Simon Schatzberger.