Town and Country. Tim Mclnnernyand Samantha Bond read descriptions of the city's charms and alarms by Wordsworth, TS Eliot and WS Graham , paeans to the natural life by Shakespeare,
John Clare and WH Hudson, and musings on where the two worlds meet from the likes of Cowper,
Edward Thomas and William Carlos Williams. Music includes works by Charles Ives , Steve Reich , Vaughan Williams and Handel.
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