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Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book VI, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen. Show more

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