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Autumn Poems

Poems old and new are read by actors and poets to mark the equinox and the new season.

Four Seasons: Autumn Poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the equinox and the new season.

Despite our centrally heated and waterproofed lives seasonal change still operates on the country's imagination and the national mood. Poets are writing about the weather and the turning year as much as ever. New poems from Helen Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Choman Hardi, Liz Berry and Robin Robertson join celebrated and loved poems by Edward Thomas, Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Bronte, W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney which are read by Anton Lesser, Sinead Cusack and Noma Dumezweni. To end the anthology Simon Russell Beale sings Feste's bitter-sweet song, The Rain it Raineth Everyday, from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Producer: Tim Dee.

30 minutes

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Sun 25 Sep 2016 16:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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  • Sun 25 Sep 2016 16:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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