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John Connell looks forward to becoming a father for the first time, with the help of three poets: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.
As he collects the turf and attends to his organic farm, he ponders what of this he'll pass onto his child.
And he wonders if his new son or daughter will have any truck with Heaney's 'cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
By BBC Radio 44.6
7373 ratings
John Connell looks forward to becoming a father for the first time, with the help of three poets: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.
As he collects the turf and attends to his organic farm, he ponders what of this he'll pass onto his child.
And he wonders if his new son or daughter will have any truck with Heaney's 'cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong

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