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Rites of Passage - Baby Naming Ceremony

Daljit Nagra chooses Rites of Passage - Baby Naming Ceremony. Presenter Ian McMillan attends a humanist ceremony. From 2004.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Rites of Passage - Baby Naming Ceremony.

Ian McMillan meets people who turn to poetry at key moments in their lives. He travels to Dartmoor to attend the humanist naming ceremony Lou and Steve devised for their daughter Imogen with the celebrant, Alison Orchard.

Produced by Susan Roberts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 Nov 202105:00
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