William Sieghart presents his Poetry Pharmacy

Sometimes only a poem will do. In what is sure to be a mesmerising performance, Helena Bonham Carter and friends will explore poetry to ease any ailment: from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego…

In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. Join us as he brings the show to Hampton Court Palace for a very special Poetry Pharmacy.