Saturday 9 October 2010

Some Readings


The British Library has released a CD of rare recordings of poets reading their own work. The BBC has some extracts, including a crackly recording of Tennyson reciting The Charge of the Light Brigade, which is of course one of his worst poems. You can hear them here.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link. I really enjoyed listening to those. A little oasis of culture in my day of shopping and basic pootling about.

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