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Four Seasons - Midwinter

Daljit Nagra selects Four Seasons - Midwinter - poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year. From 2019.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive and selects Four Seasons - Midwinter - poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year.

Poetry and music to see us through the shortest days of winter. With reflections on midwinter from writers Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey and Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time) and Lia Leendertz (the creator of the Almanac guides to the year in the British Isles), and astronomical insights into the winter solstice from cosmochemistry researcher Dr Tim Gregory.

With winter poems by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Ruth Fainlight, Gillian Clarke, Mark Doty, Kerry Hardie and Billy Collins.

Read by Sinead MacInnes and Richard Harrington.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2019.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Dec 2022 06:00
  • Sun 18 Dec 2022 11:00
  • Sun 18 Dec 2022 17:00
  • Mon 19 Dec 2022 00:00