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Ian McMillan with another episode and one of the leading poets of the First World War, Siegfried Sassoon, reads three of his own poems recorded by The Third Programme for a broadcast on 16th February 1955. While Cleaning my Old Six-Branched Candelabrum, My Past Has Gone to Bed and Brevities.

Three Score and Ten features archive recordings from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3, with 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems. Amongst them T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy. Plus ten brand new poems by contemporary poets commissioned specially for the series and broadcast on The Verb.

Producer: Sharon Sephton; Research by Caitlin Crawford.