BBC Radio 4: The Poetry of Healing

BBC R3 and R4 are broadcasting quite a lot of poetry at the moment. I enjoyed this programme, available until Sunday:-

The Poetry of Healing http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wdcmf

Kenneth Steven selects poems by Edwin Muir, Robert Frost, WB Yeats and others to explore the idea of why people are drawn to poetry at moments of crisis.

With readings by Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble and musical extracts from Handel's Saul, Mozart's Piano Sonata in D (K.448) and the African-American spiritual 'There is a balm in Gilead'.

Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.
Music

Readings

Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Pub. Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Edwin Muir: The Horses
Selected Poems
Pub. Faber and Faber

Wallace Stevens: Sunday Morning
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Pub. Vintage

Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems,
Complete and Unabridged
Pub. Henry Holt and Co.

Ted Hughes: Daffodils
Birthday Letters
Pub. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

WB Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Pub. Scribner