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An occasional series which brings fresh insight into lives through literature. Each week a guest presenter picks readings of their favourite poetry and prose.
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Ian McMillan, from the Shed in North Yorkshire

On Ilkley Moor Baht 'at (trad)

What the Pool Said, On Midsummer's Day by Liz Lochhead from The Faber Book of Seductions (ed) Jenny Newman
Faber & Faber

Frost-Gods by Harold Massingham from Frost-Gods
Macmillan

The Birth of a Man by Maxim Gorky (tr) C J Hogarth, from Through Russia, a Book of Stories
Everyman's Library

Elegy for Arthur Prance by Pete Morgan from The Grey Mare Being the Better Steed by Pete Morgan
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Hit by Pete Morgan from A Winter Visitor
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O City of Broken Dreams by John Cheever from Collected Stories
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The Piano Has Been Drinking by Tom Waits from Small Change
Asylum Records

One in One by Kit Wright from Hoping It Might be So Poems 1974-2000
Leviathan

Hills of the North Rejoice composed by Charles Edward Oakley from The BBC Hymn Book
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