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WH Auden

Episode 18 of 50

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1972 of WH Auden reading his poems A Lullaby and Song of the Devil.

Ian McMillan with another episode as W.H. Auden reads 'A Lullaby' and 'Song of the Devil' recorded at Poetry International on 21st August 1972, from Radio 3's programme Auden in London.

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

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Mon 24 Oct 2016 21:55
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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected

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.