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Severn and Somme

Ivor Gurney (1890 - 1937)

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Genre(s): Single author

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Alan Mapstone	00:04:11
Play 01	To Certain Comrades	Alan Mapstone	00:01:54
Play 02	The Fire Kindled	Alan Mapstone	00:01:29
Play 03	To the Poet Before Battle	Alan Mapstone	00:01:18
Play 04	Maisemore	Alan Mapstone	00:01:36
Play 05	Afterwards	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:01:07
Play 06	Carol	Larry Wilson	00:01:18
Play 07	Strange Service	Alan Mapstone	00:01:47
Play 08	Serenity	Stefan Von Blon	00:00:55
Play 09	The Signaller's Vision	mleigh	00:01:17
Play 10	The Mother	James K. White	00:00:46
Play 11	To England - A Note	James K. White	00:01:15
Play 12	Bach and the Sentry	James K. White	00:00:56
Play 13	Letters	James K. White	00:01:00
Play 14	Strafe	mleigh	00:00:53
Play 15	Acquiescence	Larry Wilson	00:01:09
Play 16	The Strong Thing	Alan Mapstone	00:00:57
Play 17	Scots	mleigh	00:01:23
Play 18	To an Unknown Lady	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:34
Play 19	Song and Pain	James K. White	00:00:56
Play 20	Purple and Black	James K. White	00:01:17
Play 21	West Country	Alan Mapstone	00:01:12
Play 22	Firelight	Larry Wilson	00:01:11
Play 23	The Estaminet	Alan Mapstone	00:02:13
Play 24	Song	mleigh	00:00:44
Play 25	Ballad of the Three Spectres	Alan Mapstone	00:01:26
Play 26	Communion	Larry Wilson	00:00:53
Play 27	Time and the Soldier	Alan Mapstone	00:01:08
Play 28	Influences	Stefan Von Blon	00:01:16
Play 29	After-Glow	Larry Wilson	00:01:14
Play 30	Hail and Farewell	mleigh	00:01:27
Play 31	Praise	Larry Wilson	00:00:30
Play 32	Winter Beauty	Alan Mapstone	00:01:58
Play 33	Song of Pain and Beauty	Yogi McCaw	00:01:09
Play 34	Spring. Rouen, May 1917	Alan Mapstone	00:05:59
Play 35	June-To-Come	Larry Wilson	00:01:03
Play 36	"Hark, Hark, The Lark"	Larry Wilson	00:00:41
Play 37	Song at Morning	Larry Wilson	00:01:46
Play 38	Trees	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:01:05
Play 39	Requiem	Alan Mapstone	00:01:21
Play 40	Sonnets 1917 : 1. For England	Alan Mapstone	00:01:25
Play 41	2. Pain	BenDowling	00:01:19
Play 42	3. Servitude	BenDowling	00:01:08
Play 43	4. Home-Sickness	BenDowling	00:01:19
Play 44	5. England the Mother	Alan Mapstone	00:01:24

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