Poetry Extra: Listening And Writing

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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 and Seamus Heaney

Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney

Daljit Nagra concludes his choice of programmes featuring Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

Daljit Nagra selects Listening and Writing - Writing About Landscape -  a Ted Hughes masterclass illustrated by poems. From 1964.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive to conclude his special collection of programmes across this month featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. 

Listening and Writing - Writing About Landscape. This is a masterclass by Ted Hughes illustrated by poems: Virginia by TS Eliot; Inversnaid by Gerald Manley Hopkins and Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath. 

Producer:  Sam Langdon

First broadcast on the Home Service in May 1964

And Three Score and Ten featuring Ted Hughes' great fishing friend Seamus Heaney.  Featuring archive readings from 1968 and 1978.  Seamus Heaney talks about and reads his poems 'Digging' and 'The Ministry of Fear.'

Producer:  Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

***  And for Easter Sunday, Daljit selects a reading from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick.

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