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Rites of Passage: Hindu Wedding

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3/6. Ian McMillan travels the length and breadth of the country, meeting people who turn to poetry for inspiration or solace at key moments in their lives. McMillan travels to Bhaktivedanta Manor, near Aldenham, Hertfordshire, (made famous in the 1970s when George Harrison donated it to the Hare Krishna Movement) for a Hindu wedding. He talks to the wedding couple about the place of poetry in their lives and to a Hindu priest about the poetic nature of Sanskrit. Repeated from Sunday

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