Daisy Dunn

What a voice Plath had – stern yet somehow musical, long-vowelled, bear-like: Radio 4’s My Sylvia Plath reviewed

Plus: Joan Didion’s essays are currently being read on Radio 4 and amply bear out her reputation

Sylvia Plath at Smith College, Massachusetts, c.1951. Image: Penrodas Collection / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 18 February 2023
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