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Adventures in Poetry – John Donne

Exploring the poem The Sunne Rising – in one critic's opinion "the sexiest poem ever written in English" – by John Donne (15572-1631), who as a young man was a courtier but at the end of his life was the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Guests include John Carey, Donne's biographer.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project