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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: Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

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Daljit Nagra continues with a choice of programmes featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Daljit Nagra selects Listening and Writing - Moon Creatures with Ted Hughes and his poems of fantasy.  From 1963.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects a special collection of programmes across the month featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. 

And we hear from Daljit's poetry writing students at Brunel University, London.


Listening and Writing - Moon Creatures with Ted Hughes - poems of fantasy by Ted Hughes about the Earth-Owl and other moon creatures.  

Read and commented on by the poet. 

Producer: Sam Langdon

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1963


And Three Score and Ten

Ted Hughes reads an excerpt of The Captain's Speech from a verse drama broadcast in 1960 and from the 1970s, The Mackerel Song.

Producer:  Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

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