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: Four Seasons - Poems for the Winter Solstice

Four Seasons - Poems for the Winter Solstice

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Four Seasons - Poems for the Winter Solstice

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

Daljit Nagra selects 'Poems for the Winter Solstice' a compilation of poems celebrating the year's turning point. From 2018.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects 'Poems for the Winter Solstice' - a collection of seasonal poems celebrating the year's turning point.

Poets Caroline Bird and Vanessa Kissule join actors Simon Russell Beale, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser and Siobhan Redmond to share readings of much loved and memorable verse. There is rain, snow, darkness and warmth to mark the shortest day of the year.

Producer:  Sarah Adezzio & James Cook

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

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