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Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend

Poet Daljit Nagra selects 'Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend' with Dennis Silk.

4 Extra Debut. Poet Daljit Nagra selects 'Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend' with Dennis Silk and a private recording of the war poet. From July 2004.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend' 

Dennis Silk recalls his 13-year friendship with the war poet and shares a precious private recording he made in the 1960s of Siegfried Sassoon reading his own work, including The General, Base Details, Died of Wounds and several other poems. 

Producer: Tom Alban

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004.

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