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George Mackay Brown, WS Graham

Episode 21 of 50

Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive broadcasts of Scottish writers George Mackay Brown and WS Graham, reading their poems about loss and memory.

Ian McMillan continues with Scottish poets George Mackay Brown and W.S. Graham reading their poems about loss and memory.

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

Thu 27 Oct 2016 21:55

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  • Thu 27 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.