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Simon Armitage’s The odyssey

January 10, 2010January 18, 2010 / Whispering Gums / Leave a comment

Mostly when we travel we listen to the radio or music, but on our recent trip we listened to a 3-CD dramatisation of Homer's The odyssey. The set was lent to us; the dramatisation was done by poet Simon Armitage for BBC-4. As my friend who lent it to us said, you need to get … Continue reading Simon Armitage’s The odyssey

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