New Songs of Innocence
More than 230 years after its publication, we hear school-age readers grapple with Songs of Innocence, William Blake’s classic collection of poems and illustrations.
More than 230 years after its publication, we hear school-age readers grapple with Songs of Innocence, William Blake’s classic collection of poems and illustrations. Given that education, purity and childish imagination are fundamental to Blake's masterpiece, who better to digest and reimagine that seminal work today?
Presenter Raymond Antrobus is a British poet and educator who has won the Ted Hughes Award and Rathbones Folio Prize for his work. He was raised on the language of William Blake by his mother Rosemary, a keen member of The Blake Society.
Host: Raymond Antrobus
Producer: Talia Randall
Executive Producer: Jack Howson
Mix Engineer: Arlie Adlington
Sound Recordist: Alice Boyd
Interpreter: Pettra St Hilaire
With thanks to creative writing charity First Story, Heron Hall Academy in Enfield, and Laurence Ashcroft.
A Peanut & Crumb production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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- Tue 2 Sep 2025 16:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4