蜜芽传媒

Daljit Nagra revisits the 蜜芽传媒's poetry archive and chooses Terminates here and Tell Me the Truth About Love - two programmes about very different journeys.

To mark 200 years since the birth of the modern railway, 4 Extra broadcasts Terminates Here.

Terminates Here: 1/5 Beginnings

Poet Lemn Sissay retraces the route taken by the mail train in WH Auden's famous poem Night Mail.

Lemn boards the Caledonian Sleeper, leaving London at the same time as Auden's Down Special mail train would have departed.

Producer - Philip Sellars

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in 2007.

Tell Me the Truth About Love: 5/5

Carol Ann Duffy, explores the heady world of love poetry from first flush to final parting. She argues that love poems are the poems that continue to have the most profound and lasting impact on the general reader, and examines enduring images and themes across ages and cultures.

This episode explores poems of loss and separation.

Producer - Emma Harding

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in 2013.

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