Richard Armitage reads
the Ted Hughes Letters |
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| Produced by: | Susan Roberts |
| Distributor: |
BBC Radio 4 |
| Broadcast date: | Mon 29 Oct 2007, 2.15pm |
| Duration: | 45 minutes |
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Read by: |
Richard Armitage |
On 29 October 2007, as part of the ‘Afternoon Play’ series, novelist Jane Feaver introduced a selection of previously unheard letters from the late Poet Laureate, written to family, friends, academics, children and fellow writers. The letters were sent to Hughes’s publisher Faber & Faber during 1952 – 1972. Jane Feaver knew Ted when she worked for the publisher in London.
Richard Armitage adopted a yorkshire accent to read a series of letters and poems in the style of the poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998).
A review of the programme by The Telegraph