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Carol Ann Duffy

Episode 37 of 50

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, archive recordings by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who reads two of her works in broadcasts from 1988 and 1991.

Ian McMillan with another episode in this fifty part series. Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy reads two of her poems, from two decades, 1988 and 1991.

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.

Photograph: Jemimah Kuhfeld.

5 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Nov 2016 21:55

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Nov 2016 21:55

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.