Autumn Poems
Autumn poems old and new to mark the turning of the year. With work from Sylvia Plath, AE Housman, Robert Burns, Sappho, Jen Hadfield, Jacob Polley and Alice Oswald.
Four Seasons returns with poems of autumn, old and new, read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year. Sylvia Plath, George Macbeth, AE Housman, Robert Burns and Sappho read by Harriet Walter, Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale, Liz Lochhead and Noma Dumezweni. Plus work by Jacob Polley, Jen Hadfield and Alice Oswald - Radio 4's new poet in residence - with a new poem specially commissioned for the day.
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Broadcast
- Sun 24 Sep 201716:30BBC Radio 4 FM
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