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Ian McMillan continues this fifty part series with a search for silence as Simon Armitage reads a specially commissioned poem recorded in Iceland in 1995 plus an extract from 'Goalkeeper with a Cigarette'.

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.