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Louis MacNeice

Made for 4 Extra. Daljit Nagra introduces Louis MacNeice reading his poetry in 1949 plus ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔr In A Dudley Accent from 2004.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive selecting two programmes. First, Third Programme producer, Louis MacNeice reads two of his poems recorded in 1949, Snow and Prayer Before Birth.

Taken from Louis MacNeice: Three Score And Ten a fifty part series in which Ian McMillan presents recordings of poets and poetry to celebrate 70 years of Radio 3's recordings since it was launched as the Third Programme in September 1946.

Producer - Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 in 2016.

and Twenty Minutes - ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔr In A Dudley Accent presented by Paul Farley.

Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham in the early 1930s teaching Classics at the University. Despite his ambivalent relationship with the city, the years he spent there were to prove critical in both his personal and poetic life. The poet Paul Farley goes in search of MacNeice’s β€œhazy city”.

Producer - Emma Harding.

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 in 2004.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 3 Jun 2019 05:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Jun 2019 17:00
  • Mon 3 Jun 2019 05:00