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Adventures in Poetry - Snow by Louis MacNeice

Daljit Nagra selects Adventures in Poetry: Snow. Peggy Reynolds explores the appeal of Louis MacNeice’s poem. From 2002.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects Adventures in Poetry: Snow - featuring the poem by Lous MacNeice.

Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Tom Paulin, Anthony Thwaite and Jill Balcon, with MacNeice's biographer Jon Stallworthy, join Peggy Reynolds to explore the background, effect and lasting appeal of this poem. The reader is Stephen Rea.

Producer: Frances Byrnes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 16 Dec 201905:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  • Mon 16 Dec 201905:00
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