Ted Hughes, Lavinia Greenlaw and Kathleen Jamie

Poet Daljit Nagra selects two programmes from the BBC archives::

* Meet My Folks with Ted Hughes
* Three Score And Ten - Lavinia Greenlaw and Kathleen Jamie

Listening & Writing – Meet My Folks

Ted Hughes explains how his verse about his family came to be written. Featuring:

My Brother Bert
My Uncle Dan
My Grandmother
My Grandfather
My Mother

Written and presented by Ted Hughes.

Producer: Sam Langdon

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1965.

Three Score And Ten - Lavinia Greenlaw and Kathleen Jamie

Ian McMillan presents Lavinia Greenlaw reading her then unpublished poem “Akhmatova in Lambertville” from a Young Poet's programme in 1996. A title which changed
before publishing to “Reading Akhmatova in Midwinter”.

Followed by Kathleen Jamie reading “Ultrasound”.

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast as part of Radio 3's series Three Score and Ten from 2016.

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