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Spoon River - Edgar Lee Masters [1977]

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BBC (as its archives name them)
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1977
Episodes
1
Language
English

Spoon River

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First broadcast: Tue 23rd Aug 1977, 21:35 on BBC Radio 3

A sequence for radio adapted by PAUL MEIER from EDGAR LEE MASTERS' Spoon River Anthology

With the voices of David Buck , Blain Fairman

Susannah Fellows , Don Fellows, Bessie Love, David March, Nicolette McKenzie and Paul Meier

Edgar Lee Masters published his verse portrait of a MidWest American town in 1915. Its simplicity, humour and compassion remain as fresh as ever.

"The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one? -

All, all, are sleeping on the hill."

Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON

(Transferred from off-air cassette recording.)

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Spoon River

    No date given · 47 min

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  1. Spoon River - Edgar Lee Masters [1977]

    Listeners' uploads · BBC Radio 3 · 1 episode here · archive.org

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