Twenty Minutes

Rewriting the Easter Rising

Saturday 22 April 2006 19:15-19:40 (Radio 3)

90 years after the Easter Rising, Robbie Meredith introduces the fascinating story behind one of the most famous poems in the English speaking world: Easter 1916 by WB Yeats.

Its haunting refrain: all is changed, changed utterly; a terrible beauty is born hides a web of deception, politics and lust.

Duration:

25 minutes

Twenty Minutes

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