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Walter de la Mare

Episode 10 of 50

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Walter de la Mare reads his poems England and the Little Salamander in an archive broadcast from Christmas Day 1953.

Ian McMillan with another episode in this series. From a Radio 3 broadcast on Christmas Day 1953, Walter de la Mare reads his poems England and The Little Salamander.

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.

5 minutes

Last on

Wed 12 Oct 2016 21:55

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  • Wed 12 Oct 2016 21:55

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Three Score and Ten – The poets and their poems, collected

Three Score and Ten – The poets and their poems, collected

Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.