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"A Birthday": Christina Rossetti's joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter.

It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently. When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday. Carol Ann...

'Birthday: What Gifts Day Gives' invites listeners to explore the traditions and customs of the birthday celebration, picks their curiosity at the choice of the cake, shares the party highlights and raises existential questions through a poetic recollection.

 Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.