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Words, Words, Words

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen.
This programme does not include a reading from the telephone directory but does include the Beaufort Scale, poems by D. H. Lawrence, G.M. Hopkins, Wordsworth, Philip Larkin, Brian Patten, a letter from Dr Johnson and an extract from Shaw's Man of Destiny.
(First broadcast on R3) Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian McKellen
Director:
Ian Cotterell
Source: Radio Times

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