Samuel West reads Sassoon's

uncensored poem Atrocities

10 July 2014 Last updated at 10:16 BST
When Siegfried Sassoon published his poem Atrocities in 1919 it was
shocking in its description of British soldiers boasting about killing
German prisoners.
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But that version was heavily censored by publishers, with euphemisms
such as 'How did you do them in?' replacing 'How did you kill them?', and
other lines removed altogether.
Actor and director Samuel West, appearing on the Today programme,
reads the uncensored version of the poem, before British academic
J ean Moorcroft Wilson explains why its publishers originally modified it.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday 10
July.
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