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The Essay

Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes

Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood. To her his books were more a mood: a dark and brooding presence but one that resonated. Show more

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.