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The Sunday Feature: Station Island

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Nobel Prize-winner Seamus
Heaney reads his poem Station Island in its first complete broadcast.
Modelled on Dante's Divine
Comedy, it is the account of a poet's pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory in Donegal, in search of illumination about his relationship with language, politics and faith.
Producer Denis Nowlan

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Producer:
Denis Nowlan
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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