PTMGMC: Melvyn Bragg reads William Shakespeare

Melvyn Bragg read 'Sonnet XXX' by William Shakespeare from the anthology 'Poems That Make Grown Men Cry' and explains why it bring him to tears.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight;
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.

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The sonnet actually starts at 2:00