A selection from the recently published poem cycle by Jaroslav Seifert translated from the Czech by EWALD OSERS, who prefaces the programme with a short introduction.
Read by HUGH BURDEN with additional readings in Czech by GEORGE PRAVDA Seifert. now aged 78, is one of Czechoslovakia's leading poets. His poems have been prevented from being published in his native country since 1968.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN