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Last broadcast on Sat, 5 Dec 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems.
Philip Larkin was disappointed by his 'Tomb poem': one of the pivotal details was wrong and another, he discovered, had been invented by a Victorian restorer 500 years later. 'Muddle to the end,' he complained, and yet it is now one of his best-loved and most quoted poems.
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Sun 29 Nov 200916:30
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Sat 5 Dec 200923:30
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