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'Rather Odd Poets....’

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The starting point of Britten's Peter Grimes was a talk on the poet
George Crabbe given on the BBC's Overseas
Service in 1941 by E M Forster . Valentine Cunningham introduces that archive recording and talks about the literary world from which it stems.

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Unknown:
Peter Grimes
Unknown:
George Crabbe
Unknown:
E M Forster
Introduces:
Valentine Cunningham
Source: Radio Times

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