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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Proms Plus Literary

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Plus Literary: Louis MacNeice

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Louis MacNeice

02/09/2013

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Poets Andrew Motion and Paul Farley celebrate the life and work of poet Louis MacNeice.

Poets Andrew Motion and Paul Farley celebrate the life and work of Louis MacNeice, one of the most popular and influential of the 'thirties poets', who died 50 years ago.

Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and poet Paul Farley on the work of one of the most popular and influential of the Thirties poets, Louis MacNeice, the BBC producer who worked with Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden and whose most enduring work, Autumn Journal, is set amid the upheaval of the period leading up to the Second World War. MacNeice died fifty years ago this week.There's also a Proms appreciation of fellow Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney whose death was announced on Friday

Ian McMillan presents.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of this summer's Proms Plus events.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Plus Literary

Proms Plus Literary

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.

All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of events providing a context to the 2013 Proms season's music and artists

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