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Saturday Live

Michael Morpurgo, John McCarthy in the Wye Valley, dialect poet Raymond Reed, Lenny Henry's Inheritance Tracks

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Sian Williams and Richard Coles with Michael Morpurgo, John McCarthy in the Wye Valley, dialect poet Raymond Reed, writer Peter James and Lenny Henry's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Saturday Drama

The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In Switzerland 1816, the myth of Frankenstein was created by Mary Shelley. Howard Brenton's 1984 play imagines the lives of those present, among them the poets Byron and Shelley. Show more

Contributors

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Oliver Ryan
Mary Shelley:
Clare Corbett
George, the Lord Byron:
Patrick Kennedy
Claire Clairmont:
Sarah Ovens
Dr William Polidori:
Gareth Pierce

Genres

BBC Radio 4 FM

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