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Radio 4,4 mins

SeriesSeries 4

Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Digital Human

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Coleridge found great inspiration in the night. While we no longer experience the night as he did, we can almost feel the chill of the dark frozen world in 'Frost of Midnight', one of his finest night poems. Read by Richard Addison

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