Poetry Extra: Four Seasons

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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: Autumn Poems

Autumn Poems

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Autumn Poems

Dajlit Nagra selects a compilation programme of Autumnal poems from the BBC archive.

Daljit Nagra selects Four Seasons: Autumn Poems with work from Sylvia Plath and Alice Oswald.  From 2017.

Four Seasons returns with poems of autumn, old and new, read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year. 

Sylvia Plath, George Macbeth, AE Housman, Robert Burns and Sappho read by Harriet Walter, Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale, Liz Lochhead and Noma Dumezweni. Plus work by Jacob Polley, Jen Hadfield and Alice Oswald - Radio 4's poet in residence - with a new poem specially commissioned for the day.

Produced by Tim Dee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

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