Poetry Extra: Four Seasons

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Poetry Extra: Four Seasons - Autumn Equinox

Four Seasons - Autumn Equinox

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Four Seasons - Autumn Equinox

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

Dajlit Nagra selects Four Seasons - Autumn Equinox - a compilation of poetry readings celebrating the coming of autumn.   From 2019.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Four Seasons - Autumn Equinox - a compilation of poetry readings celebrating the coming of autumn.   

Back in 2019, September 23rd was the Autumn Equinox.  Throughout the day Radio 4 broadcast a series of seasonal poems to mark the turning of the seasons.  This compilation brings together the poems and poets whose work was featured throughout the day.

Actors reading poems include : Simon Russell Beale, Anton Lesser, Juliet Stevenson, Paul McGann, Siobhan Redmond, Tanya Moodie

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast across the day on BBC Radio 4 on 23rd September 2019.

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