2009-10-03 Quality Street

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DATE : Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000
Entered in Database : 2009-10-02 14:00:00
length : 14523072
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Quality Street was the first ABC weekly program dedicated to Poetry. It began in 1946 and ran for 27 years ...ending in 1973. What we are going to hear today are two programs, featuring AD Hope and Kenneth Slessor, from the later years of the show ...from April 1972 and March 1971. My First Aquantance with Poets is from April 1972 and features the then Emeritus Professor of English at the Australian National University, poet and essayist, Alec Derwent Hope. He talks about four poets who had left a lasting impression on him Readers Robert Peach and Patricia Kennedy Producer Julianne Ford. The Poetry of Kenneth Slessor is from March 1971. Slessor is perhaps best known as a war corrspondant but he was also one of our finest poets. This program went to air three months before his death. Reader Ron Haddrick Narrator Tim Elliot Producer Richard Connolly

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