Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown chooses his favourite works of poetry and prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong and Pippa Hayward.
Paddy Ashdown reads from his favourite works of poetry and prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong and Pippa Haywood, including Shakespeare, John Donne, Tagore and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Music and verse provided by singer songwriter, Steve Knightley from Show of Hands
Producer: Maggie Ayre.
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Extracts used
The Good Morrow by John Donne
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (translated by Rex Warner)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
A Letter from 1920 by Ivo Andric (translated by Lenore Grenoble)
Unity in Diversity by Rabindranath Tagore
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (translated by Thomas P. Whitney)
Satire III by John Donne
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Paddy Ashdown |
| Reader | Simon Armstrong |
| Reader | Pippa Hayward |
| Producer | Maggie Ayre |
Broadcasts
- Mon 27 Jul 201516:00BBC Radio 4
- Thu 24 Sep 201523:30BBC Radio 4
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