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Poetry for the Spring Equinox

Poet Daljit Nagra introduces Four Seasons – Spring - an anthology of old and new poems read by actors and poets. From 2017.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive and chooses Four Seasons – Spring to mark the spring equinox and the new season.

The programme features an anthology of old and new poems read by actors and poets for Radio 4's Four Seasons. Poems by Charlotte Mew, William Wordsworth, Louis MacNeice, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Edward Thomas are read by Juliet Stevenson, Noma Dumezweni, Ray Fearon, Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Alex Jennings and Anton Lesser. Alice Oswald, Gillian Clarke and Patience Agbabi read their own work.

Producer: Tim Dee.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2017.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Mar 2020 05:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 Mar 2020 17:00
  • Mon 9 Mar 2020 05:00