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21 December 2006

Adventures in Poetry: Musee de Beaux Arts

The third in our five-part series, produced by the BBC, exploring the lasting impact of some of our best-known and best-loved poems. (Because of our copyright agreement with the BBC, this program is not available for podcast.)

In this episode of Adventures In Poetry, Peggy Reynolds explores the background of Auden's 'Musee de Beaux Arts', a reflection on bearing witness to human suffering.


Guests

Rose Flint
Poet and Artist

Simon Armitage
Poet

Blake Morrison
Writer and Poet

Ian Sansom
Critic

Paul Gogh
Academic and artist

Professor Joanna Shapiro
Professor of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine's College of Medicine.