Poetry Extra: Peter Redgrove 

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Poetry Extra: Peter Redgrove: Radio Poems - Obeah Oss

Peter Redgrove: Radio Poems - Obeah Oss

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

Daljit Nagra selects Peter Redgrove: Radio Poems - Obeah Oss featuring the Padstow festival with hobby horses.  From 1998.

Poet Peter Redgrove offers a personal view of the extraordinary May Day processions through the streets of Padstow in Cornwall. The poem is illustrated with recordings of the Obby Oss made at the time and rare archive sounds from the BBC vaults. 

Producer - Tim Dee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

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