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20:20

Hugh MacDiarmid: Aims and Opinions

Wed 9^th Mar 1960, 20:20 on Third Programme

The second of two recorded conversations with D.G. Bridson

The subjects covered by this conversation range from the place of poetry in a scientific age, poetry as propaganda, Social Credit and Marxism, to Whitman and Dr. Zhivago. It also includes MacDiarmid's candid opinions on the poetry of his contemporaries.
Illustrative readings by Duncan McIntyre

Contributors

Interviewee:: Hugh MacDiarmid
Interviewer:: D.G. Bridson
Reader:: Duncan McIntyre

Source: Radio Times

Third Programme

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Radio Times Issue 1895

6^th March 1960

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