Idris Elba is helping spread a message of hope during the coronavirus pandemic. The actor, 47, who revealed he tested positive for COVID-19, recorded a poem for the BBC.
Elba read Don’t Quit from American poet John Greenleaf Whittier as scenes across the United Kingdom during the crisis played out.
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