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The Distance, The Shadows

on BBC Radio 3

' Victor Hugo was a playwright, a novelist, a politician, a diarist: but he is first and foremost a poet - the finest of all the French romantics'.
Harry Guest , translator of the first substantial selection of Hugo's poetry to appear in English for over 80 years, Introduces a choice of poems read in French and In translation by Olivier Pierre and Gary Watson.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

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Victor Hugo
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Harry Guest
Translation By:
Olivier Pierre
Translation By:
Gary Watson.

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