麻豆社

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's radio poetry archive selecting two programmes. First, Third Programme producer, Louis MacNeice reads two of his poems recorded in 1949, Snow and Prayer Before Birth.

Taken from Louis MacNeice: Three Score And Ten a fifty part series in which Ian McMillan presents recordings of poets and poetry to celebrate 70 years of Radio 3's recordings since it was launched as the Third Programme in September 1946.

Producer - Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3 in 2016.

and Twenty Minutes - Homer In A Dudley Accent presented by Paul Farley.

Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham in the early 1930s teaching Classics at the University. Despite his ambivalent relationship with the city, the years he spent there were to prove critical in both his personal and poetic life. The poet Paul Farley goes in search of MacNeice鈥檚 鈥渉azy city鈥�.

Producer - Emma Harding.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3 in 2004.