Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Daljit Nagra selects Listening and Writing - Learning to Think and 'Daddy' written and read by Sylvia Plath. From 1963.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive and selects a special collection of programmes across the month featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
And we're joined by Daljit's poetry writing students at Brunel University, London.
Listening and Writing - Learning to Think with Ted Hughes - is a talk by the writer about the poet's way of thinking. Including three poems:
'View of a Pig' and 'Wodwo' by Ted Hughes
'Bare Almond Trees' by DH Lawrence.
Produced for Schools Radio by Sam Langdon
First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Third Programme in May 1963
And Three Score and Ten featuring a reading of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath - a recording made shortly before she died.
Producer: Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Third Programme in September 1963.
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