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The Hunting of the Snark

on BBC Radio 3

Michael Bakewell examines the various interpretations of Lewis Carroll 's nonsense verse about "an impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature" and introduces a dramatised reading.
Music: Steven Faux

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Music:
Steven Faux
Narrator:
Alan Bennett
Bellman:
Paul Daneman
Baker:
David Collings
Butcher:
David King
Snark:
Peter Penry Jones

BBC Radio 3

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