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Radio 4 Extra,08 Mar 2026,30 mins

Stories In Verse - Robert Hardy

Poetry Extra

Available for 28 days

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Stories in Verse - Robert Hardy. The acclaimed actor Robert Hardy reads the following poems: *'Hiawatha's Wooing' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *'The Burghers' by Thomas Hardy *'The Diverting History of John Gilpin' by William Cowper. Presented and produced by Joy Boatman First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1994.

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