Seamus Heaney
Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive broadcasts from 1968 and 1978. Seamus Heaney talks about and reads Digging and The Ministry of Fear.
Ian McMillan with another episode in this fifty part series. Seamus Heaney talks about and reads 'Digging' from 1968 and 'The Ministry of Fear' from Radio 3's Poetry Cambridge programme, June 1978.
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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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected—Three Score and Ten
Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.
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.