Enda Wyley
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320 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Enda Wyley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is this amazing chandelier set her off on this poem, which I'll read for you now, actually.
Yeah,
that's right.
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Yeah, and she turns on the chandelier and then it came.
so it's Autumn by Rue Borson.
One night goes on longer than the rest.
never so long wild away then dawn goodbye insects hollow casings on the windowsill a dainty leg among the spice jars goodbye marigolds the earth will not wait for you trains hurtle by at the edge of cities the taste of bourbon a mouthful of leaves
Above everyone's dining room table, a chandelier burns.
Now the luxurious old wine can be uncorked.
The slicing of meat and bread uncorked.
And in the black panes, life goes on.
Yeah, I sure did.
I went for, can you imagine, on September the 19th, 1819, which is 207 years ago.
John Keats was walking along by the River Itchen in Hampshire and suddenly one of the most famous poems about autumn was written and composed and I was reading a letter that he wrote to his best friend around that time and he was so excited about writing this poem he said how beautiful the season is now how fine the air this struck me on my Sunday walk and I composed upon it now remind me how old he was
So he was only 24, actually, and he had a very good year for that year because he's written Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale.
Can you imagine?
So they were all flowing out of him.
And then it was really sad, actually, because only soon after writing this poem that I'm going to read, he began to get the signs of TB.
And he knew that he was getting it because his son, his brother, Tom, actually, had died from it only a few years before this.
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