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Radio 3,12 Sep 2017,15 mins

SeriesParadise Lost

Adam Nicolson

The Essay

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Milton's epic was first published 350 years ago. He was blind as he composed it yet wrote the most extraordinary visually realised poem in English. Adam Nicolson (author of books on Homer, English Arcadias, and the King James Bible) explores the remarkably 3-D invention. Producers: Tim Dee and Siobhan Maguire.

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