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Sir Ian McKellen reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Poet Daljit Nagra selects Coleridge’s cautionary tale - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner read by Sir Ian McKellen. From 2006.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive and selects The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - the atmospheric poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Read by Sir Ian McKellen.

A young wedding guest is detained with a 'glittering eye' and a strange tale of the supernatural events he experienced on a long sea voyage.

Specially recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere.

Producer: Susan Roberts.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 on Christmas Day in 2006.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Dec 2019 05:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 Dec 2019 17:00
  • Mon 23 Dec 2019 05:00