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Tales from Ovid: Echo and Narcissus & Callisto and Arcas

4 Extra Debut. Daljit Nagra introduces a prize-winning retelling of tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Written and read by Ted Hughes. From April 1998.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive with 'Tales of Ovid'.

Poet Ted Hughes begins reading from his award-winning reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses - stories of the teeming underworld and overworld of Romanised Greek myth and legend.

Starting with 'Echo and Narcissus' and 'Callisto and Arcas', this highly praised collection won the 1997 Whitbread prize for poetry and WH Smith Literary Award.

Ted Hughes: born: 1930 and died: 1998.

Producer: Susan Roberts

First broadcast in two-parts on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1998.

30 minutes

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