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Actors Alan Rickman and Emma Thomson are to star in a BBC production based on a poem by this year's Costa winner Christopher Reid.
The BBC2 film, based on The Song of Lunch, is being made to mark National Poetry Day
on 7th October. It is a dramatisation of Reid’s narrative poem about a book editor who, 15 years after their break-up, meets up with his ex-lover in a Soho restaurant.
Janice Hadlow, BBC2 comtroller, said: "To mark National Poetry Day, BBC2 will be bringing this art form to life with a truly ambitious project and a stellar cast. We hope that audiences will enjoy this dramatisation of Christopher Reid's touching and witty poem and maybe feel inspired to indulge in a little more poetry themselves."
Reid won the Costa Book Of The Year for his collection A Scattering earlier this year. The Song of Lunch is published by CB Editions.