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Winter Solstice poems
Celebrating the winter solstice. Traces, Gerda Stevenson; Snowdad, Jacob Polley; What My Lips Have Kissed, Edna St Vincent Millay; My Sad Captains, Thom Gunn.
Celebrating the winter solstice with poems for the year's turning point; Traces by Gerda Stevenson, Harriet Walter reads Piano by D. H. Lawrence, Noma Dumezweni reads Edna St Vincent Millay's What My Lips Have Kissed and Simon Russell Beale reads Thom Gunn's My Sad Captains.
Producer: Sarah Addezio.
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Thu 21 Dec 2017
23:55
麻豆社 Radio 4
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