Sylvia Plath
Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Sylvia Plath reads her poem Daddy in a recording made shortly before her death and broadcast in September 1963.
Ian McMillan continues with the mighty Sylvia Plath reading her poem Daddy recorded shortly before her death and broadcast on Radio 3 in September 1963.
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.
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- Thu 13 Oct 2016 21:55大象传媒 Radio 3
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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected
Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.