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Poetry Please: The Poet and the General

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Don Taylor tel Is the true story of 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell 's two years in literary seclusion at
Nun Appleton House, Yorkshire, with the retired Lord General of the New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax. Director Ellen Dryden Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Taylor
Unknown:
Andrew Marvell
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Fairfax.
Director:
Ellen Dryden
Marvell:
Anton Lesser
Fairfax:
Edward Petherbridge
Source: Radio Times

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