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The series of programmes in which writers explore a chosen theme from the BBC archives. This week writer Colm Toibin explores some Irish connections in the archive. He begins with WB Yeats reciting his own poetry and the tenor Peter Pears performing The Curlew, a setting of Yeats's poems by Peter Warlock. Plus a 1972 performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde performed by Irish contralto
Bernadette Greevy under Charles Groves. Producer Declan McGovern

Contributors

Unknown:
Colm Toibin
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Peter Warlock.
Contralto:
Bernadette Greevy
Unknown:
Charles Groves.
Producer:
Declan McGovern
Source: Radio Times

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