Poetry Extra: Adventures In Poetry

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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: Adventures In Poetry - The Sunne Rising

Adventures In Poetry - The Sunne Rising

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Adventures In Poetry - The Sunne Rising

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

Daljit Nagra chooses Adventures in Poetry - The Sunne Rising – John Donne's sexually-charged masterpiece. From 2000.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archives and chooses Adventures in Poetry - The Sunne Rising - John Donne's sexually charged masterpiece.

Peggy Reynolds enlists writers, poets, schoolboys, Shakespeare, the Ancient Greeks and the caretaker of a very contemporary garden in an exploration of Donne's classic poem.

Guests include John Carey.

Reader: Douglas Hodge

Producer: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.

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