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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: The Feast of Language

The Essay: The Feast of Language: Episode 1: Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Episode 1

Episode 1: Seamus Heaney

The Feast of Language

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Poet Thomas Lynch explains why he relishes the work of Seamus Heaney.

Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch discusses the work of Seamus Heaney, who died in August 2013, and describes how his writing has nourished him.

Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74, was announced today. Lynch describes how Heaney's writing has nourished him and offers a warm appreciation of Heaney's poetic gifts.

First broadcast in May 2011.

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.

Thomas Lynch, a poet, essayist and funeral director, discusses his favourite poets

Thomas Lynch, an accomplished poet, essayist and funeral director from Michigan, discusses his most beloved poets and examines how their work has nourished and sustained him throughout his life

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