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Adventures in Poetry

on BBC Radio 4 FM

1/6. Peggy Reynolds returns with the series that explores a well-known poem and looks at how it became embedded in the collective consciousness.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reynolds begins with Shelley's early 19th-century poem about the ruins of empires and the transience of power. Contributors include Shelley's biographer Richard Holmes and BBC foreigh correspondent Rageh Omar. Repeated from Sunday

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Peggy Reynolds
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Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Richard Holmes
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Rageh Omar.

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