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31/12/2017

Edinburgh At The Year's Midnight: A Winter Journey In Poetry

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Edinburgh At The Year's Midnight: A Winter Journey In Poetry

Poet Daljit Nagra selects Stewart Conn's Edinburgh at the Year's Midnight.

4 Extra Debut. On New Year's Eve, poet Daljit Nagra selects a winter journey in poetry with Stewart Conn: Edinburgh at the Year's Midnight.

For New Year's Eve, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Edinburgh at the Year's Midnight'. 

One of Scotland's most highly-regarded poets, Stewart Conn takes a winter journey in poetry, sound and music through the capital city with actors Gordon Kennedy and Siobhan Redmond. 

A fragment from Under The Ice by Stewart Conn, inspired by Raeburn's portrait which hangs in the National Gallery in Edinburgh:

"...Was Raeburn's skating parson
a man of God, poised
impeccably on the brink;
or his bland stare
no more than a decorous front?
If I could keep my cool
like that. Gazing straight ahead,
not at my feet. Giving
no sign of knowing
how deep the water, how thin the ice."

Music arranged and played by Aly Macrae.

Producer: Gordon Kennedy

Director: Marilyn Imrie.

Made for BBC Radio 4 by Absolutely productions and first broadcast in 2016.

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