Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects a special collection of programmes across the month featuring Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

And we're joined by Daljit's poetry writing students at Brunel University, London.

Listening and Writing - Learning to Think with Ted Hughes - is a talk by the writer about the poet's way of thinking. Including three poems:

'View of a Pig' and 'Wodwo' by Ted Hughes
'Bare Almond Trees' by DH Lawrence.

Produced for Schools Radio by Sam Langdon

First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in May 1963

And Three Score and Ten featuring a reading of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath - a recording made shortly before she died.

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in September 1963.