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Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's radio poetry archive and chooses Blithe Spirits: Beasts on attitudes to mammals and Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - William Wordsworth.

Radio 4
Joanna Pinnock explores attitudes to mammals in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Through popular verse she reveals the biblical significance of beasts and traces the gradual emergence of animal welfare.

Contributors:
Christine Hall
Erica Fudge
Christine Kenyan-Jones
Ashton Nichol
Cameron Milne

Christine Hall reads To A Young Ass – Coleridge
Christine Hall reads Providence - George Herbert
Christine Hall reads The Hunted Hare – Cavendish
Cameron Milne reads To A Mouse – Burns

Producer - Brett Westwood

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2001.

Time for Verse
Poets Laureate – William Wordsworth
Radio 4
From the series about some famous and some forgotten holders of the office, compiled and presented by Sean Street

Readers Martin Jarvis, Adrian Cairns And David Goodland

Producer Margaret Bradley

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1987.

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