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Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of lesser-known or forgotten poets

Lost Voices: Series 3

Lost Voices: Series 3: Episode 1: Anne Ridler

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Episode 1: Anne Ridler

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Anne Ridler

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Lost Voices, Series 3, Anne Ridler

Brian Patten explores the life and poetry of Anne Ridler. Reader Juliet Stevenson.

Brian Patten explores the life and poetry of Anne Ridler, whose quiet and lucid observations of 20th century life are often overlooked. The poems are read by Juliet Stevenson.

In the first of a new series, Brian Patten explores the life and poetry of Anne Ridler, whose quiet and lucid observations of 20th century life are often overlooked. Born into a literary family, Anne's early employment with the publisher Faber meant that she was working to T.S. Eliot. Her work, however, is very much in her own distinctive voice: quiet, contemplative, but acute in its observation. Juliet Stevenson reads a selection of Anne Ridler's poems on themes of the natural world, relationships, the rhythms of human life.

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