Poetry Extra: The Hunting Of The Snark

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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: The Hunting Of The Snark read by Alec Guinness

The Hunting Of The Snark read by Alec Guinness

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, The Hunting Of The Snark read by Alec Guinness

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

Daljit Nagra selects The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.  An epic nonsense poem read by Alec Guinness. From 1963.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive  and selects The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. 

Alec Guinness reads Lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem - a surreal odyssey in which a bizarre group of characters sets off in search of an elusive and mysterious beast. 

Producer: Douglas Cleverdon  

First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in December 1963.

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