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Langston Hughes

鈥淗e was a musician as well as a poet.鈥 A profile of the American poet, novelist and playwright who strived to unite the rhythms of poetry to the cadence of black music. He was the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

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