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Poetry Extra: Poet of Albion

25/09/2016

Poet of Albion

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poet of Albion

Daljit Nagra on the life of the radical London artist and poet, William Blake.

Daljit Nagra introduces The Poet of Albion on the life of the radical London artist and poet, William Blake. From November 2007.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with The Poet of Albion.

Jenny Uglow presents a profile of Wiliam Blake. Widely misrepresented as a patriotic conformist, the great poet was a passionate dissident, a political artist deeply at odds with his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of the time.

Contributors include Blake's biographer Peter Ackroyd and poet and critic Tom Paulin.

Producers: Susan Marling and Kate Bland. 

Made for BBC Radio 4 by Just Radio and first broadcast in 2007.

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