Great Lives: Niamh Cusack on Mary Oliver

Matthew Parris is joined by actress Niamh Cusack, who chooses the American poet Mary Oliver. The Pulitzer Prize winning poet, who died in 2019, was best known for her poetry that reflected her love of the natural world and her famous poem Wild Geese is said to have literally saved people's lives with its message of hope and redemption. An abusive childhood led the young Mary to escape into the woods near her home in Ohio where she discovered a love of nature that was to sustain her throughout her life