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The Spinster's Sweet-arts

on BBC Radio 3

A poem in the Lincolnshire dialect by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Read by Mary Wimbush
Introduced by Hallam Tennyson

Tennyson's dialect poems, written 30 years after he had left his native Lincolnshire, are among his least known but most vigorous works.

Contributors

Poet:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reader:
Mary Wimbush
Presenter:
Hallam Tennyson

BBC Radio 3

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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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