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Poetry and Planets: Simon Armitage

Poet Daljit Nagra introduces a piece by Simon Armitage and an interview from Start the Week. From 1998 and 1997.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s radio poetry archive with 'Poetry and Planets' featuring Simon Armitage plus an interview from 'Start the Week' where he discusses his inspiration.

'Poetry and Planets': When poet Simon Armitage invested in a powerful Russian telescope to scan the night skies above his native Huddersfield, he produced a sequence of almost 90 poems about the constellations and their modem imaginative resonances. Simon introduces and reads his favourite poems from the sequence.

Producer: Robert Ketteridge. From 1998

'Start The Week': Simon Armitage talks about his collection CloudCuckooLand with Melvyn Bragg.

Producer: Olivia Seligman. From 1997.

30 minutes

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Mon 27 Apr 2020 05:00

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