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2: Send My Roots Rain. Derek Jacobi stars as Gerard Manley Hopkins in a dramatisation of his final Jesuit retreat to Tullabeg in Ireland in 1889. Always struggling to reconcile his role as a poet with that of Jesuit priest, the retreat culminates in the writing of the powerful poem Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord. Commentary by Norman White. Dramatised passages written by Geoffrey Beevers. For details see yesterday

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Derek Jacobi
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Commentary By:
Norman White.
Written By:
Geoffrey Beevers.
Source: Radio Times

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