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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: Can yr Adar - Song of the Birds

Can yr Adar - Song of the Birds

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Can yr Adar - Song of the Birds

Daljt Nagra selects the very best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects Can yr Adar - Song of the Birds with singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford and composer, Gwilym Simcock.  From 2017.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Can yr Adar - Song of the Birds featuring singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford and composer, Gwilym Simcock who describe how they wove words and music out of the landscape and wildlife of Carngafallt nature reserve in Mid Wales.

Kizzy Crawford returns to the RSPB nature reserve at Carngafallt in Mid Wales, where she was inspired to create “Can Yr Adar - Birdsong” with pianist and composer, Gwilym Simcock, and members of Sinfonia Cymru.  Kizzy and Gwilym share how they wove music out of Wales's own 'Celtic rainforest', and they open a window on the hidden processes of creation, collaboration and communication that gave birth to a brand new work of art.

Produced by Chris Taylor.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

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