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RS Thomas

Episode 12 of 50

Celebrating 70 years of poets on Radio 3 and the Third Programme, RS Thomas reads two of his poems in a recording made in August 1965 at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Ian McMillan with another episode in this fifty part series. Welsh poet and preacher R.S. Thomas reads two of his poems recorded by the Third Programme at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 1965.

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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Fri 14 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.