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19/07/2009

As part of the 大象传媒 Poetry Season, a selection of poems and music chosen by 大象传媒 Radio 3 presenters. The readers are Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.

As part of the 大象传媒 Poetry Season, a selection of poems recommended by 大象传媒 Radio 3 presenters. Including work by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Keats, WH Auden, Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay and Maya Angelou, and music by Bach, Shostakovich, Nina Simone, Schubert, Martinu and Yasmin Levy.

The choices include Jez Nelson on Langston Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Rob Cowan on I Could Not Stop by Emily Dickinson, Fiona Talkington on Sonnet XLVII by Edna St Vincent Millay and Stephen Johnson on September 1, 1939 by WH Auden. The readers are Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 19 Jul 2009 22:15

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