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 - Summer

Four Seasons - Summer

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

Daljit Nagra celebrates the Summer Solstice with a choice from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra chooses Four Seasons: Summer a collection of poems celebrating heat, light and the longest day.  From 2019.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Four Seasons: Summer.

This is a collection of poems celebrating the midpoint of summer and the longest day of the year.

Read by: 

Jason Watkins
Anton Lesser
Juliet Stevenson
Siobhan Redmond
Adjoa Andoh
Simon Russell Beale.   

Mona Arshi and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett read their own poetry on a summery theme.

Producers: Mair Bosworth & Sally Heaven

Originally broadcast across the day on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.

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