Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard

Ian Hislop takes an amused look at one of the most peculiar offices in the British establishment, that of Poet Laureate. Its 341-year history produces a gloriously eccentric picture of who we are, how we are ruled, what we want to say about ourselves and just how hard it is to do that in verse. 　　We know that Poets Laureate write about royal weddings but Hislop discovers a whole ...