Compact discs. Program notes by Alice Oswald and credits ([10] p.) inserted in container. Recordings of BBC broadcasts made between 1960 and 1992 of Ted Hughes introducing and reading selections from his poems and short stories. Ted Hughes, speaker.
Contents:
Life is trying to be life. The captain's speech -- Thistles -- The road to Easington Out -- The thought-fox -- The retired colonel -- Pike -- Hawk roosting -- Full moon and little Frieda -- Pibroch -- Prometheus on his crag had such an advantageous prospect -- Prometheus on his crag spotted the vulture -- Prometheus on his crag began to admire the vulture -- The best worker in Europe [extract] -- The poet Laureate [extract] -- Snow -- A kill -- A childish prank -- Notes for a little play -- Football at slack -- Wild rock -- For Billy Holt -- When men got to the summit -- The long tunnel ceiling -- Mount Zion -- Shakleton Hill -- Cock-crows -- Heptonstall old church -- Teaching a dumb calf -- Tractor -- Orf -- February 17th -- Happy calf -- Earth-numb -- A motorbike -- The lovepet -- Funeral -- The song -- And the falcon came -- The swift comes the swift -- The dove came -- Life is trying to be life.
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