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Radio 4 Extra,10 May 2026,30 mins

Stories In Verse - Robert Stephens reads Browning and Longfellow

Poetry Extra

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Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC World Service poetry archive and selects: Stories in Verse: * The Pied Piper of Hamlyn by Robert Browning * King Robert of Sicily by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poems are read by Robert Stephens. Presented and produced by Joy Boatman. First Broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1993.

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