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Poetry Extra: Paul Durcan - Christmas Day 3/3

25/12/2016

Paul Durcan - Christmas Day 3/3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Paul Durcan - Christmas Day 3/3

Daljit Nagra selects the final part of Paul Durcan's reading of his poem 'Christmas Day'.

Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra selects the final part of Paul Durcan's reading of his poem 'Christmas Day'. From 1997.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with Paul Durcan's Christmas Day. 

Paul continues reading from hi book-length poem that sets out a funny, sweetly sad and often irreverent vision of Christmas.

After Christmas lunch, Paul returns to his empty home, and his thoughts range across his life.

First broadcast on Radio 3 in December 1997.

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