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Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Trees are Down by Charlotte Mew, It is Not Growing Like a Tree by Ben Jonson

Poems to celebrate the spring equinox. Readers Bill Patterson, Harriet Walter and Siobhan Redmond usher us into a new season.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

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Tue 20 Mar 201823:55
BBC Radio 4

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