The British Library, 2010
New Poetry: The Poet's Voice
Date of recording: 26.10.1960
Date of broadcast: 20.11.1960
1 Leaving Early (Duration: 2.28)
2 Candles (Duration: 2.13)
Two of a Kind: Poets in Partnership
Date of recording: 18.01.1961
Date of broadcast: 31.01.1961
Other speakers: Ted Hughes, Owen Leeming
3 Interview with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Duration: 20.10)
4 Introduction to Mushrooms (Duration: 0.08)
5 Mushrooms (Plath) (Duration: 0.59)
6 Introduction to Pike (Duration: 0.15)
7 Pike (Hughes) (Duration: 2.24)
The Living Poet
Date of recording: 05.06.1961
Date of broadcast: 08.07.1961
8 Introduction (Duration: 0.57)
9 Introduction to The Disquieting Muses (Duration: 0.43)
10 The Disquieting Muses (Duration: 3.09)
11 Introduction to Spinster (Duration: 0.28)
12 Spinster (Duration: 1.29)
13 Introduction to Parliament Hill Fields (Duration: 0.47)
14 Parliament Hill Fields (Duration: 3.15)
15 Introduction to The Stones (Duration: 0.39)
16 The Stones (Duration: 2.44)
Live poetry reading at the Mermaid Theatre, London
Date of recording: 17.07.1961
17 Introducing Sylvia Plath (Duration: 0.46)
18 Introduction to Tulips (Duration: 0.13)
19 Tulips (Duration: 4.31)
The Poet's Voice
Date of recording: 10.08.1962
Date of broadcast: 24.08.1962
20 The Surgeon at 2 a.m. (Duration: 3.00)
What Made You Stay?
Date of recording: 14.04.1962
Date of broadcast: 07.09.1962
21 Surviving extracts from a recording made for, and partly used in, the programme What Made You Stay?, the first of a series in which seven Americans were asked why they chose to live and work in England (Duration: 6.44)
The Poet's Voice
Date of recording: 29.10.1962
Date of broadcast: 17.11.1962
22 Berck-Plage (Duration: 6.32)
New Comment
Date of recording: 10.01.1963
Date of broadcast: 10.01.1963
23 Sylvia Plath reviews an anthology called Contemporary American Poetry and reads extracts from the following poems:
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