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City Lilacs by Helen Dunmore read by Tanya Moodie
2 minutes
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Late March by Richard Schiffman
1 minute
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Poetry for Spring equinox continues with Late March by Richard Schiffman Show more
Ada Limón's poem Instructions on Not Giving Up is read by Tanya Moodie Show more
Spring poetry for the equinox: Snail by Thom Gunn Show more
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Poems for the Spring Equinox
4 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Four poems to mark the coming of Spring Show more
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Poems for the Spring Equinox
28 minutes
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A chance to hear all of the poetry broadcast on Friday Show more
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Charlotte Mew - In the Fields, Philip Larkin - The Trees
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Spring poems: Charlotte Mew's In the Fields, read by Juliet Stevenson, and Philip Larkin's The Trees, read by Alex Jennings. Show more
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Alice Oswald - A Wood Coming into Leaf.
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A poem for the first day of spring as part of a day of seasonal poetry. Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf. Show more
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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A poem for the first day of a new season: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Ray Fearon. Show more
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Edward Thomas - The Cherry Trees
30 minutes
A poem for spring. Noma Dumezweni reads The Cherry Trees, by Edward Thomas. Show more
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Christopher Marlowe - Come Live with Me, William Wordsworth - Lines Composed in Early Spring, Louis MacNeice - Nuts in May
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Three poems for the new season: Christopher Marlowe's Come Live with Me, William Wordsworth's Lines Composed in Early Spring and Louis MacNeice's Nuts in May. Show more
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An anthology of poems for the new season
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
An anthology of old and new poems for spring read by actors and poets for Radio 4's Four Seasons. Including poems by Wordsworth, Gillian Clarke, Alice Oswald and Patience Agbabi. Show more
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Poems for the Winter Solstice
2 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A collection of seasonal poems for the winter solstice. Show more
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Poems for the Winter Solstice
2 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A collection of seasonal poems to mark the turn of the seasons
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Poems for the Winter Solstice
1 minute
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A collection of seasonal poems to mark the turn of the seasons
Four Seasons
Poems for the Winter Solstice
1 minute
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A collection of seasonal poems to mark the turn of the seasons
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Poems for the Winter Solstice
5 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
A collection of seasonal poems to mark the turn of the seasons
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Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
2 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Read by Simon Russell Beale, Failing and Flying is a sparse account of a marriage as it unravels over the course of a summer, scored by William Grant Still's Moderately Slow. Show more
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A Bee by Peter Didsbury
2 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Peter Didsbury's poem, A Bee, recounts a day in the life of a man as a bee. Accompanied by Wolfgang Buttress's 'The Journey', recorded from beehive sounds and improvised music. Show more
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Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
2 minutes
Langston Hughes' Dream Variations conjures the African-American dream: freedom from prejudice, contrasting it with light and dark on this the longest day. Read by Noma Dumezweni. Show more