Poetry Extra: Adventures in Poetry

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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: Adventures in Poetry - Snow by Louis MacNeice

Adventures in Poetry - Snow by Louis MacNeice

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Adventures in Poetry - Snow by Louis MacNeice

Poet Daljit Nagra chooses the very best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects Adventures in Poetry: Snow. Peggy Reynolds explores the appeal of Louis MacNeice’s poem.  From 2002.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects Adventures in Poetry:  Snow - featuring the poem by Lous MacNeice. 

Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Tom Paulin, Anthony Thwaite and Jill Balcon, with MacNeice's biographer Jon Stallworthy, join Peggy Reynolds to explore the background, effect and lasting appeal of this poem. The reader is Stephen Rea. 

Producer: Frances Byrnes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

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