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This is an omnibus of twelve episodes from the ERT Poem of the Day series on YouTube. I make daily videos in which I read and then discuss a poem, for the last twelve days I've focussed on seagull poems and here are all twelve in one bumper anthology. 

 

Poets featured:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Michael Rosen

Brian McCabe 

Edwin Morgan

Enid Welsford

Herbert Bashford

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Elizabeth Akers Allen 

Lloyd Mifflin

Hamlin Garland

Bret Harte

Anna Maria Wells

 

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S3E104 Today, Ash broadcasts from the Hermitage of Braid in Morningside, to talk about a poem Robert Fergusson was inspired to write on a visit there in 1771. 

 

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S3E103 Today, Ash interviews Frank Rennie, Professor of Sustainable Rural Development at the University of the Highlands and Islands and author of numerous books, including this year's The Merlin. Tune in to find out more about this elusive and magical raptor, from it's earliest fossil records to the environmental challenges facing it today. 

 

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S3E102 Today, Ash interviews Edinburgh-based author Krystelle Bamford about her debut novel, Idle Grounds for a conversation ranging from Scotland to the "horse country" of New England. 

 

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Idle-Grounds-Krystelle-Bamford/dp/1529154588

 

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S3E101 Donald Smith takes us on a literary tour of Edinburgh's Old Town, touching on the stories of writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, J. K. Rowling, Naomi Mitchison, Robert Burns and many more. 

 

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