Radio 4 yesterday ran an interesting programme about High Flight a favourite poem of mine. The programme explores the history of the poet and pilot John Magee and of the poem itself.
The programme is available on iPlayer for another 6 days and is worth a listen; although I could have quite happily gone without ever hearing [...]
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High Flight on Radio 4
High Flight
I suppose I’m a relative latecomer to poetry having only started to appreciate it in the last couple of years. I don’t recall ever reading poetry at school, and, perhaps unconventionally, it was the use of poetry in films that piqued my interest.
This was followed by finding a book of The Nation’s Favourite Poems at [...]