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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: Poetry Societies - The Yeats Society of Sligo

Poetry Societies - The Yeats Society of Sligo

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Poet Daljit Nagra introduces Poetry Societies – The Yeats Society of Sligo.

Made for 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Societies – The Yeats Society of Sligo about the Nobel Prize-winning poet and his home. From August 2006.

80 years since the death of WB Yeats (28 January 1939), Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive selecting Poetry Societies – The Yeats Society of Sligo about the Nobel winning poet and his home.  From 2006.  

Presenter Judith Palmer spends a day on the West Coast of Ireland with the Yeats Society as they celebrate the poet’s birthday [13th June 1865 ].

Produced by Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006.

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