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 - Spring

Four Seasons - Spring

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

Daljit Nagra selects a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra chooses Four Seasons: Spring - a compilation of poetry broadcast to celebrate the Spring Equinox.  From 2019.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Four Seasons - Spring - a compilation of poetry broadcast to celebrate the Spring Equinox.

Actors Siobhan Redmond, Adjoa Andoh, Simon Russell Beale, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Pippa Haywood and Paul McGann read poetry on the theme of Spring to celebrate the Vernal Equinox.  

There are appearances from poets Christine de Luca on Woman's Hour and Caleb Femi with a specially composed Spring poem on Front Row.  

Originally broadcast across one day on BBC Radio 4.  

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.

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