Rupert Brooke

An profile of the life and times of Rupert Brooke, poet and World War One casualty, who lived for many years at Grantchester in Cambridgeshire. The film begins with the opening lines of Brooke's best known work, 'The Soldier', from a sequence of sonnets entitled '1914'. Written in a 'stuffy German cafe', these lines reveal Brooke's longing for the natural beauty of his Cambridgeshire home. Another…