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Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown chooses his favourite works of poetry and prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong and Pippa Hayward.

Paddy Ashdown reads from his favourite works of poetry and prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong and Pippa Haywood, including Shakespeare, John Donne, Tagore and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Music and verse provided by singer songwriter, Steve Knightley from Show of Hands

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

28 minutes

Last on

Thu 24 Sep 2015 23:30

Extracts used

The Good Morrow by John Donne

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (translated by Rex Warner)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

A Letter from 1920 by Ivo Andric (translated by Lenore Grenoble)

Unity in Diversity by Rabindranath Tagore

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (translated by Thomas P. Whitney)

Satire III by John Donne

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Paddy Ashdown
Reader Simon Armstrong
Reader Pippa Hayward
Producer Maggie Ayre

Broadcasts

  • Mon 27 Jul 2015 16:00
  • Thu 24 Sep 2015 23:30

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