Sylvia Plath's last winter

Here's our ode to Sylvia Plath, broadcast on the eve of the 50th anniversary of her death. In the autumn of 1962 her marriage with fellow poet Ted Hughes had disintegrated, and she moved to a flat in London, with her two children. What followed was one of the coldest winters on record, and the creation of some of the most widely-read poems of Plath's career. We've gathered some recordings of her own readings and the recollections of two friends Jillian Becker and Al Alvarez to describe her last winter.