麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's poetry archive to conclude his special collection of programmes across this month featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Listening and Writing - Writing About Landscape. This is a masterclass by Ted Hughes illustrated by poems: Virginia by TS Eliot; Inversnaid by Gerald Manley Hopkins and Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath.

Producer: Sam Langdon

First broadcast on the 麻豆约拍 Service in May 1964

And Three Score and Ten featuring Ted Hughes' great fishing friend Seamus Heaney. Featuring archive readings from 1968 and 1978. Seamus Heaney talks about and reads his poems 'Digging' and 'The Ministry of Fear.'

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2016.

*** And for Easter Sunday, Daljit selects a reading from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick.