An anthology of poems for the new season
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.
To mark the spring equinox and the new season, an anthology of old and new poems read by actors and poets for Radio 4's Four Seasons. Poems by Charlotte Mew, William Wordsworth, Louis MacNeice, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Edward Thomas are read by Juliet Stevenson, Noma Dumezweni, Ray Fearon, Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Alex Jennings and Anton Lesser. Alice Oswald, Gillian Clarke and Patience Agbabi read their own work. Producer: Tim Dee.
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- Sun 26 Mar 2017 16:30BBC Radio 4
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