Ian McMillan introduces poet Dame Edith Sitwell reading in an archive recording from 1947. She reads from poetry series entitled Facade as well as the poem Still Falls the Rain. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Ian McMillan introduces Cecil Day-Lewis reading from his poem An Italian Visit in a broadcast from 1949. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1962, with Adrian Mitchell reading his poem Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1960, with Vernon Scannell reading his poems Dejection and A Case of Murder. Show more

Ian McMillan introduces archive recordings of Ted Hughes, reading an excerpt of The Captain's Speech from a verse drama broadcast in 1960 and from the 1970s, The Mackerel Song. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1972 of WH Auden reading his poems A Lullaby and Song of the Devil. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1971 of Dannie Abse reading the first two parts of his nine-part poem Funland. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive broadcasts from 1968 and 1978. Seamus Heaney talks about and reads Digging and The Ministry of Fear. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive broadcasts of Scottish writers George Mackay Brown and WS Graham, reading their poems about loss and memory. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1979 by Geoffrey Hill, with a selection of his poems including History as Poetry. Show more

Recordings marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme. Douglas Dunn reads his Ballad of the Two Left Hands and Michael Longley reads Ash Keys and Frozen Rain. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive radio broadcasts of Iain Crichton Smith reading his poems in Poetry Now in October 1976 and September 1981. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Ian McMillan introduces a recording from 1949 in which Louis MacNeice reads his poems Snow and Prayer Before Birth. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Ian McMillan presents an archive recording from 1950 of Dylan Thomas reading his poem In the White Giant's Thigh. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, a 1946 archive recording in which TS Eliot reads his work The Journey of the Magi. Plus part of The Four Quartets. Show more

For Radio 3's 70th anniversary, a 1955 archive recording in which Siegfried Sassoon reads his poems Cleaning My Old Six-Branched Candelabrum, My Past Has Gone to Bed and Brevities. Show more

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, First World War poet Edmund Blunden reads his own poem Concert Party in an archive broadcast from 1957. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, two recordings from 1958. John Betjeman reads his poem Youth and Age and William Empson reads his poem Missing Dates. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, two archive recordings. Jenny Joseph reads her poem The Lost Sea and Scottish poet Edwin Muir reads The Two Brothers. Show more

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Walter de la Mare reads his poems England and the Little Salamander in an archive broadcast from Christmas Day 1953. Show more