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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - My Last Duchess

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Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems. The height of English Gothic, a poem in which an aristocrat tacitly admits to having done away with his young wife - a Medici no less. Peggy Reynolds teases out the many layers of Robert Browning's chilling but groundbreaking poem.