A programme on the Russian poet AFANASY FET (1820-92), compiled by James Greene from the poems he translated in collaboration with Cynthia Westwood.
Readers Stephen Moore and Liane Aukin
Russian reader Boris Isarov
Turgenev called him 'a nightingale'; Leo Tolstoy referred to his 'amazing lyric audacity'; to
Alexander Blok he was 'a great teacher'; according to Mandelstam, Fet spoke 'with the burning salt of incorruptible words'; to Pasternak he was 'a demi-god'.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS