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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: Adventures in Poetry - Adlestrop

25/10/2015

Adventures in Poetry - Adlestrop

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Adventures in Poetry - Adlestrop

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of this 1915 poem.

4 Extra Debut. Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of this 1915 poem about a stop at a Cotswolds railway station.

BBC Radio 4's and 4 Extra's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive. 

In Adventures in Poetry, Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of the 1915 poem 'Adlestrop' about a stop at a Cotswolds railway station.

This poem has long been loved for its evocation of high summer, rural England and the intimation of changes to come.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

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