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 - Casabianca

Adventures in Poetry - Casabianca

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Adventures in Poetry - Casabianca

Daljit Nagra selects the best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive

Daljit Nagra selects Adventures in Poetry - Casabianca by Felicia Hemans - "The boy stood on the burning deck". From 2004.

Poet Daljit Nagra explores the BBC's poetry archive and selects Adventures in Poetry - Casabianca by Felicia Hemans - the poem which is best known for its first line: - "The boy stood on the burning deck....".    

This poem was written about a true episode that happened during the Battle of the Nile in the Napoleonic wars by a poet who in her time was as popular as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. 

Peggy Reynolds talks to critics, a world-famous yachtsman, a naval historian and trainee officers about its impact.

Producer - Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.

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