Blake Morrison presents an edition of the Radio 3 Sunday Feature that considers the life and work of poet, journalist and screenwriter James Agee - Pullitzer Prize winning author of A Death in the Family, collaborator with photographer Walker Evans on the seminal study of sharecroppers during the Depression, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and script writer on The African Queen and Night of the Hunter.

With Agee's son Joel, Hugh Davis of the University of Tennessee, biographer Dwight Garner, Steve Cotham of the East Tennessee Historical Society, Caroline Blinder of Goldsmiths College, Knoxville artist RB Morris, Phil and Jed Burroughs (relatives of the 'Gudgers' in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) and rare archive of Agee himself.