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Dannie Abse

Episode 19 of 50

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, an archive broadcast from 1971 of Dannie Abse reading the first two parts of his nine-part poem Funland.

Ian McMillan continues the series with Dannie Abse who reads the first two parts from his nine part poem 'Funland' broadcast in a programme called Poetry Bang, May 1971.

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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Tue 25 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.