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First World War 100: Poetry's Passing Bells

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Poetry readings from the BBC archive commemorating the centenary of the end of WW1.

Poet Daljit Nagra presents poetry readings from the BBC archive commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War.

First World War 100: Poetry's Passing Bells: Anthem For Doomed Youth, Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend

06/11/2018

Anthem For Doomed Youth, Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend

BBC Radio 4 Extra - First World War 100: Poetry's Passing Bells, Anthem For Doomed Youth, Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend

Poet Daljit Nagra's archive tribute includes Dennis Silk talking about Siegfried Sassoon.

Made for 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra's archive tribute includes, from 2004, Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend, in which Dennis Silk talks about his friendship with the poet.

Poetry's Passing Bells

Poet and presenter of Poetry Extra, Daljit Nagra, leads Radio 4 Extra’s memorial to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War – on 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918. Daljit introduces programmes from the BBC radio archive that traces the impact the First World War had upon poets, both soldiers, and those left behind. 

Beginning each edition will be the poetry, and letters, of Wilfred Owen, who died in the weeks before the end of the Great War, in November 1918, aged only 25.

In Anthem for Doomed Youth (Radio 3, 1993), Kenneth Branagh reads some of the most profoundly moving artistic responses to the terrible impact of war ever written.

Siegfried Sassoon - A Friend (2004)
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. 

Presenter: Daljit Nagra
Producer: Peter McHugh

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