Twenty Minutes

2 February 2006

Thursday 2 February 2006 20:20-20:40 (Radio 3)

Historian Bettany Hughes, author of the recent book Helen of Troy, looks at the fictional Helen through the eyes of British poets: from Christopher Marlowe to Carol Ann Duffy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Rupert Brooke.

Do her fictional incarnations bear any resemblance to historical fact? And why does she continue to fascinate contemporary British poets?

Duration:

20 minutes

Twenty Minutes

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