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Tales from Ovid: Arachne; Midas

Daljit Nagra introduces Arachne and Midas, stories retold from Ovid's Metamorphoses written and read by Ted Hughes. From April 1998.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Tales of Ovid'.

Poet Ted Hughes continues reading from his award-winning reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses - stories of the teeming underworld and overworld of Romanised Greek myth and legend.

Featuring 'Arachne' and 'Midas', this highly praised collection won the 1997 Whitbread prize for poetry and WH Smith Literary Award.

Ted Hughes: born: 1930 and died: 1998.

Producer: Susan Roberts

First broadcast in two-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 11 Jul 201605:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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