New Songs of Innocence

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More than 230 years after its publication, we hear school-age readers grapple with Songs of Innocence, William Blake’s classic collection of poems and illustrations. Given that education, purity and childish imagination are fundamental to Blake's masterpiece, who better to digest and reimagine that seminal work today? Presenter Raymond Antrobus is a British poet and educator who has won the Ted Hughes Award and Rathbones Folio Prize for his work. He was raised on the language of William Blake by his mother Rosemary, a keen member of The Blake Society. Host: Raymond Antrobus Producer: Talia Randall Executive Producer: Jack Howson Mix Engineer: Arlie Adlington Sound Recordist: Alice Boyd Interpreter: Pettra St Hilaire With thanks to creative writing charity First Story, Heron Hall Academy in Enfield, and Laurence Ashcroft. A Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Radio 4