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Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War

Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War

FromArts & Ideas


Proms Plus Literary - Responses to War

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jul 21, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Booker prize winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy on the subject of the First World War, and the poet Owen Sheers discuss writers', musicians' and painters' responses to war including the work of Keith Douglas, UA Fanthorpe, David Jones, Alun Lewis and the paintings of CW Nevinson. The reader is Samuel West.
This programme was recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of the BBC Proms. To find out further information about the events which are free to attended go to bbc.co.uk/proms
Released:
Jul 21, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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