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Turf, Babe and Me
FromA Point of View
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
John Connell looks forward to becoming a father for the first time, with the help of three poets: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.
As he collects the turf and attends to his organic farm, he ponders what of this he'll pass onto his child.
And he wonders if his new son or daughter will have any truck with Heaney's 'cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
As he collects the turf and attends to his organic farm, he ponders what of this he'll pass onto his child.
And he wonders if his new son or daughter will have any truck with Heaney's 'cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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