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4/4. This week four travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature: the books the changed the way we saw the world and the art of writing about it. Today Joanna Kavenna discusses the significance of Louis MacNeice and WH Auden's Letters from Iceland (1937), a beguiling and ground-breaking mixture of travelogue, poetry and prose.

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Joanna Kavenna
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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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