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Last Lines

Ian McMillan enjoys last lines with Stuart Maconie, Caroline Bird, and Sinéad Morrissey.

Ian McMillan enjoys last lines in poetry, song, memoir, and novels - and his guests introduce him to different varieties of endings: the trap door, the rug-pull, the fade and many more. Stuart Maconie, writer and broadcaster, is Ian's guide to the bathetic and sometimes dramatic ends to be found in popular song - and explores an ending created by the Cornish poet Charles Causley. Caroline Bird reads a sonnet from her poetry collection 'The Air Year' and reveals the draft that helped her reach the poem and its ending, and fellow poet Sinéad Morrissey shares a work-in-progress inspired by endings: 'Seeing Red', her memoir of growing up in a Communist family in Northern Ireland.

Producer: Faith Lawrence

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44 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jan 2024 22:00

Music Played

  • Vera Hall

    Death, Have Mercy

Broadcasts

  • Fri 17 Feb 2023 22:00
  • Fri 5 Jan 2024 22:00

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