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Last broadcast on Sun, 26 Jun 2011, 00:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
In today's episode we hear the poems 'Lewti' - Coleridge's 'love-chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman and 'The Thorn', Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast and the superstitions that the locals have attached to her. Recorded on location in Coleridge's Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset and in the Quantock Hills.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Julius D'Silva
William Wordsworth - Mark Meadows
The Captain - Peter Gruffydd
Adapted and produced by Emma Harding.
Coleridge's Somerset home
In the footsteps of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wordsworth's inspiration - the Wye Valley
Broadcasts
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Tue 13 Oct 200915:30
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Sun 26 Jun 201100:30
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