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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: Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Louis MacNeice

Two programmes featuring the radio producer and poet Louis MacNeice.

Made for 4 Extra. Daljit Nagra introduces Louis MacNeice reading his poetry in 1949 plus Homer In A Dudley Accent from 2004.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive selecting two programmes.  First, Third Programme producer, Louis MacNeice reads two of his poems recorded in 1949, Snow and Prayer Before Birth.    

Taken from Louis MacNeice: Three Score And Ten a fifty part series in which Ian McMillan presents recordings of poets and poetry to celebrate 70 years of Radio 3's recordings since it was launched as the Third Programme in September 1946. 

Producer - Sharon Sephton 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

and Twenty Minutes - Homer In A Dudley Accent presented by Paul Farley.  

Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham in the early 1930s teaching Classics at the University. Despite his ambivalent relationship with the city, the years he spent there were to prove critical in both his personal and poetic life. The poet Paul Farley goes in search of MacNeice’s “hazy city”.

Producer - Emma Harding.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2004.

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