Autumn Poems

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 poet in residence - with a new poem specially commissioned for the day.

Produced by Tim Dee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.