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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: David Jones and Edmund Blunden

David Jones and Edmund Blunden

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Daljit Nagra chooses the best programmes from the BBC poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects The Fatigue featuring war poet David Jones and Three Score and Ten Edmund Blunden.  From 1965 and 1957.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects The Fatigue featuring war poet David Jones and Three Score and Ten Edmund Blunden.  

For some years David Jones was engaged on inter-related pieces of writing concerned with Roman soldiers garrisoned in Judaea at the time of the Passion.  In this fragment. The Fatigue, the term is used in the Army sense of a fatigue-party detailed haphazardly for a chance duty - in this case, the Crucifixion. Read by the author.

First broadcast on Network Three in 1965.  

First World War Poet, Edmund Blunden who battled at Ypres and The Somme, reads his own poems Concert Party and Report on Experience from a broadcast in 1957.

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