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Solstice poems from Coleridge, Jamie and Duffy on Radio 4

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Actor Simon Russell Beale will be reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Frost at Midnight’ as part of Radio 4’s day of poems for the winter solstice on Wednesday 21 December. Other winter solstice poems in Radio 4’s Four Seasons series will be Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Perfect Day’, and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Snow’ . 

 

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◄ 'She knows she is not looking at the sky. But she calls out, still'

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