Overture to Death Part 1

by C. Day Lewis

Overture to Death Part 1 - C. Day Lewis
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Overture to Death Part 1

Recording used by permission of the BBC read by the author for a BBC broadcast on 21st May, 1938.

C. Day Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (who wrote as C. Day Lewis) was born in Ireland in 1904, the son of a Church of Ireland minister. The family moved to ...
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