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A Lasting Joy

BBC One
on BBC One London

A personal choice of poetry by C. Day Lewis
The second in a series of six programmes made a few weeks before his death in which the Poet Laureate presented his own selection of verse.

Tonight's theme is Human Heroism and among the poets chosen are Goldsmith, Pope, George Seferis, Tennyson and Yeats.

Contributors

Presenter/Reader:
C. Day Lewis
Reader:
Jill Balcon
Producer:
Norman Swallow
Source: Radio Times

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