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Poems for Infant Minds

on BBC Radio 4 FM

How did we get from the finger-wagging moral poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, which warned girls and boys against being naughty, to the zany nonsense of the last century? And has the moral message wrapped in verse really changed all that much? Poet and presenter Nigel Forde takes a look at a huge range of writers, including sisters Anne and Jane Taylor , whose anthology of 1804 gave this programme its title. Repeated from Sunday

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Presenter:
Nigel Forde
Presenter:
Jane Taylor

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