Old Age
Ian McMillan and guests poet Fleur Adcock, comedian Pope Lonergan and writer Jane Campbell explore the language, poetry and perceptions of old age.
Ian McMillan explores the language, poetry and perceptions of old age with Fleur Adcock who has been writing poetry for seven decades, comedian Pope Lonergan who has written a memoir of his ten years working in a care home, and psychotherapist Jane Campbell who at the age of 80 is publishing her debut collection of short stories this month.
And in our Something Old Something New series celebrating 100 years of poetry on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ we hear an archive poem from Michael Longley, and a new commission from Rachael Boast, inspired by hearing an 1890 recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Something New: Rachael Boast reads Listening to Tennyson
Duration: 01:31
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- Fri 1 Jul 2022 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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