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Afternoon Play: Autumn Journal

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Samuel West reads Louis MacNeice's poem, which describes the poet's thoughts and feelings between August and December 1938 as the Second World War approached. With echoes of the First World War and elements of reportage, ethics, love poems and politics, it contains, as MacNeice wrote to T.S. Eliot, "everything which from first-hand experience I consider significant."

Original music composed by Gary Yershon. Performed by Anne Wood, Julia Singleton, Dinah Beamish, Fiona Clifton Welker, Anna Hemery and Paul Moylan.

Contributors

Poet:
Louis MacNeice
Reader:
Samuel West
Original music composed by:
Gary Yershon
Musician:
Anne Wood
Musician:
Julia Singleton
Musician:
Dinah Beamish
Musician:
Fiona Clifton Welker
Musician:
Anna Hemery
Musician:
Paul Moylan
Director:
Susan Roberts
Source: Radio Times

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