Four Seasons

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Four Seasons: Midwinter

Midwinter

BBC Radio 4 - Four Seasons, Midwinter

Poetry, music and meditations for the shortest days of winter.

Poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year. With Jay Griffiths, Tim Gregory and Lia Leendertz.

Poetry and music to see us through the shortest days of winter. With reflections on midwinter from writers Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey and Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time) and Lia Leendertz (the creator of the Almanac guides to the year in the British Isles), and astronomical insights into the winter solstice from cosmochemistry researcher Dr Tim Gregory. 

With winter poems by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Ruth Fainlight, Gillian Clarke, Mark Doty, Kerry Hardie and Billy Collins. Read by Sinead MacInnes and Richard Harrington. 

Producer: Mair Bosworth

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