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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: Sir Ian McKellen reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Sir Ian McKellen reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Sir Ian McKellen reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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

Poet Daljit Nagra selects Coleridge’s cautionary tale - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner read by Sir Ian McKellen. From 2006.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - the atmospheric poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  

Read by Sir Ian McKellen.

A young wedding guest is detained with a 'glittering eye' and a strange tale of the supernatural events he experienced on a long sea voyage.   

Specially recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere.  

Producer: Susan Roberts.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day in 2006.

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