麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's radio poetry archive and chooses 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.

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, WB 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 bittersweet song, The Rain it Raineth Everyday, from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2016.