Poetry Extra: Midwinter 

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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: Poetry Please - Midwinter

Poetry Please - Midwinter

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - Midwinter

Daljit Nagra chooses the best programmes from the BBC's poetry archives.

Daljit Nagra selects 'Poetry Please - Midwinter' with poems by Thomas Hardy, Miroslav Holub and Robert Frost. From 2016.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects 'Poetry Please - Midwinter'.

Roger McGough explores the archives to find the most evocative winter poems by Thomas Hardy, Miroslav Holub, Robert Frost and Shakespeare.  

Read by some of our best actors including:

Juliet Stevenson,
Dame Harriet Walter
Hugh Laurie.  

With Steeleye Span and Bert Jansch.   

Producer: Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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