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Adventures in Poetry

Series 10

Episode 6: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Duration: 26 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Keats' poem records him touching the ancient world through translation and his fecund imagination. Peggy Reynolds explores the stories behind its creation and its enduring appeal. Show more

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Adventures in Poetry

Series 10

Episode 3: Mending Wall

Duration: 26 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and appeal of some well-loved poems. Robert Frost's Mending Wall, which gave us the epigram 'good fences make good neighbours'. Show more

Adventures in Poetry

Series 10

Episode 5: My Last Duchess

Duration: 26 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Peggy Reynolds teases out the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but groundbreaking poem, in which an aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his young wife. Show more