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麻豆社 Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's radio poetry archive with 'Tagore at 150'.

Poets, singers and ecological activists share their favourite verse at the Tagore Festival at Dartington Hall in Devon marking the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2011.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 for his collection Geetanjali ("The Song Offerings"). He wrote more than 1,000 poems and 2000 songs and his work has been translated into all the major languages of the world.

UNESCO declared 2011 as the Year of Tagore with events throughout the world celebrating his life and work.

Devon's Dartington Hall is a centre for poetry, music, arts and crafts that was founded at the suggestion of Tagore himself.

We hear from poets such as William Radice, Ketaki Kushari Dyson and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, singers Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri, environmentalist Jonathon Porritt and internationalists such as Clare Short and Satish Kumar, Artistic Director of the Festival who is a devotee of Tagore's ecological teachings as well as his poetry.

Producer: Mukti Jain Campion
A Culture Wise production first broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 2011.