Four Seasons Episodes Episode guide
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Christopher Marlowe - Come Live with Me, William Wordsworth - Lines Composed in Early Spring, Louis MacNeice - Nuts in May
Three poems for the new season.
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Edward Thomas - The Cherry Trees
A poem for spring. Noma Dumezweni reads The Cherry Trees, by Edward Thomas.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring
A poem for the first day of a new season: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Alice Oswald - A Wood Coming into Leaf.
A poem for the first day of spring: Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf.
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Charlotte Mew - In the Fields, Philip Larkin - The Trees
Spring poems: Charlotte Mew's In the Fields and Philip Larkin's The Trees.
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Winter Poems
An anthology of seasonal poems old and new, read by actors and poets.
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Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge read by Simon Russell Beale
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge read by Simon Russell Beale for Four Seasons.
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Kathleen Jamie - Perfect Day
Kathleen Jamie reads her poem Perfect Day as part of Radio 4's Four Seasons.
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A Robin, by Walter de la Mare, read by Noma Dumezweni
Noma Dumezweni reads A Robin, by Walter de la Mare, as part of Radio 4's Four Seasons.
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Carol Ann Duffy - Snow
Carol Ann Duffy reads her poem Snow for the Winter Solstice.
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Don Paterson - Rain
Don Paterson reads his poem Rain as part of Radio 4's Four Seasons.
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Autumn Poems
Poems old and new are read by actors and poets to mark the equinox and the new season.
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Rain, etc.
An anthology of autumn poems, old and new, from Shakespeare, Liz Berry and George Ellis.
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Robin Robertson - Fall (after Rilke)
Robin Robertson reads his autumnal poem Fall. It is a version of a poem by Rilke.
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W. B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole. Read by Sinead Cusack.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: Hurrahing in Harvest
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Hurrahing in Harvest. Read by Simon Russell Beale.
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Snail by Thom Gunn
Snail by Thom Gunn read by Anton Lesser
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Instructions On Not Giving Up by Ada Lim贸n
The actor Tanya Moodie reads Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Lim贸n