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Elizabeth Jennings and Fleur Adcock

Daljit Nagra selects The Living Poet with Elizabeth Jennings and Three Score and Ten with Fleur Adcock. From 1983 and 2016.

Daljit Nagra revisits the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive and selects The Living Poet - Elizabeth Jennings. A series which features interviews with poets - and Three Score and Ten with Fleur Adcock reading some of her work.

The Living Poet - Elizabeth Jennings
β€œUntil about seven years ago I'd thought of myself as a lyric poet in perhaps rather a traditional way. Then, quite suddenly, a new type of subject-matter happened in my poems”. Elizabeth Jennings introduces a selection of work.
Producer - Fraser Steel

First broadcast on Radio 3 in 1983

Three score and Ten
Ian McMillan introduces Fleur Adcock who reads two of her poems subtly exploring stereotyping and sexual politics from The Living Poet 1985.

Producer - Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on Radio 3 in 2016.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 1 Feb 2021 05:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 31 Jan 2021 12:00
  • Sun 31 Jan 2021 17:00
  • Mon 1 Feb 2021 05:00