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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: Blithe Spirits: Beasts and Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - Wordsworth

Blithe Spirits: Beasts and Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - Wordsworth

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

Daljit Nagra selects Blithe Spirits: Beasts on attitudes to mammals and Time For Verse: William Wordsworth. From 2001 and 1987.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and chooses Blithe Spirits: Beasts on attitudes to mammals and Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - William Wordsworth.

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Joanna Pinnock explores attitudes to mammals in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Through popular verse she reveals the biblical significance of beasts and traces the gradual emergence of animal welfare.
 
Contributors: 
Christine Hall  
Erica Fudge  
Christine Kenyan-Jones  
Ashton Nichol  
Cameron Milne 
 
Christine Hall reads To A Young Ass – Coleridge
Christine Hall reads Providence - George Herbert
Christine Hall reads The Hunted Hare – Cavendish
Cameron Milne reads To A Mouse – Burns
 
Producer - Brett Westwood

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2001.   
 
Time for Verse
Poets Laureate – William Wordsworth
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From the series about some famous and some forgotten holders of the office, compiled and presented by Sean Street 
 
Readers Martin Jarvis, Adrian Cairns And David Goodland
 
Producer Margaret Bradley

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1987.

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