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Sir Ian McKellen reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Poet Daljit Nagra selects Coleridge’s cautionary tale - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner read by Sir Ian McKellen. From 2006.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - the atmospheric poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Read by Sir Ian McKellen.
A young wedding guest is detained with a 'glittering eye' and a strange tale of the supernatural events he experienced on a long sea voyage.
Specially recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere.
Producer: Susan Roberts.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day in 2006.
Last on
Mon 23 Dec 201905:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 Dec 201917:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 23 Dec 201905:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
