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Louis MacNeice

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Marking 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, Ian McMillan introduces a recording from 1949 in which Louis MacNeice reads his poems Snow and Prayer Before Birth.

Ian McMillan continues the series with poet and Third Programme Producer, Louis MacNeice who reads two of his poems recorded in 1949, 'Snow' and 'Prayer Before Birth'.

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

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Mon 3 Oct 2016 21:55
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Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected

Three Score and Ten 鈥� The poets and their poems, collected

Ian McMillan builds a historic collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.