Currey, R N (Oral history)

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British poet served as officer with Royal Artillery and Royal Army Educational Corps in India, 1945, discusses his poetry and reads twenty-one of his poems, GB, 1966

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REEL 1: R.N. Currey discusses his poetry with Hal Lidderdale. REEL 2: R.N.Currey reads and comments on nine poems: Unseen Fire, At This Great Distance, Ex-Gunner, Burial Flags Sind Desert, Landscape, South Indian Dam, Hindu Temple, Unconsidered Bodies and Children Waking. REEL 3: R.N. Currey reads and comments on twelve poems: In Memoriam: Roy Campbell, Remembering Snow, Halo, Landscape of Violence, On That June Day, Crater Lake, Oregon, America Far West, Scenic Indigestion Far West, Mississippi, near Hannibal, Rondel, As Brave as Caesar and Villon's Epitaph in Ballade Form

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Category: Sound
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: British Council (Production company)
Lidderdale, Hal (recorder)
Currey, R N (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1966
Dimensions: whole: Duration 45, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 696

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