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An Ode to Friendship

Andrew O'Hagan teases out the connections between poetry and friendship as he remembers old friends like Seamus Heaney - and a Scottish terrier called Lucky.
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Andrew O’Hagan turns his clear eye on human relationships for Radio 4, with a week of essays examining friendship from every angle. Today he teases out the connections between poetry and friendship as he remembers old friends like Seamus Heaney - and a Scottish terrier called Lucky.

Andrew O'Hagan is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose novels have been adapted for stage and screen. His essays and reports have appeared in London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian and The New Yorker.

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Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

The recording of Seamus Heaney reading his poem "Postscript" is from Seamus Heaney Collected Poems, courtesy of RTÉ.

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14 minutes

On radio

Wednesday 11:45

Broadcasts

  • Wednesday 11:45
  • Thursday 00:30