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A Point of View: Turf, Babe and Me

05/03/2021

Turf, Babe and Me

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Turf, Babe and Me

John Connell looks forward to becoming a father for the first time.

John Connell ponders what kind of father he will be - helped by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.

John Connell looks forward to becoming a father for the first time, with the help of three poets: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.  

As he collects the turf and attends to his organic farm, he ponders what of this he'll pass onto his child.  

And he wonders if his new son or daughter will have any truck with Heaney's 'cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat'. 

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher 
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond 
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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