Poetry Extra: Four Seasons

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Poetry Extra: Four Seasons - Midwinter

Four Seasons - Midwinter

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Four Seasons - Midwinter

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

Daljit Nagra selects Four Seasons - Midwinter - poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year.  From 2019.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Four Seasons - Midwinter - poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year.  

Poetry and music to see us through the shortest days of winter. With reflections on midwinter from writers Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey and Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time) and Lia Leendertz (the creator of the Almanac guides to the year in the British Isles), and astronomical insights into the winter solstice from cosmochemistry researcher Dr Tim Gregory. 

With winter poems by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Ruth Fainlight, Gillian Clarke, Mark Doty, Kerry Hardie and Billy Collins. 

Read by Sinead MacInnes and Richard Harrington. 

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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