An appreciation of Wilfred Owen
1893-1918 by PATRIC DICKINSON who narrates the programme The excerpts from
Owen's poetry and prose read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Others taking part: Derek Birch
Denys Hawthorne Carleton Hobbs Godfrey Kenton Denis McCarthy Lewis Stringer and Geoffrey Wincott Produced by JOE BURROUGHS A revised version of the programme first broadcast in 1953 A performance of Britten's War Requiem, in which the Latin texts from the Mass for the Dead and the ritual following it are interspersed with nine of Wilfred Owen 's war poems, will be broadcast from York Minster tomorrow evening.