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1. Ted Hughes and Tenderness

   Poet Simon Armitage talks about finding an unexpected in tenderness Ted Hughes's work.
2. Ted Hughes and the River of Time

   Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries.
3. Crows, Loss and a Violent Melancholia

   Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood.
4. Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin

   Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.
5. Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters

   Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.