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The second of the drama documentary series about artistic creativity tackles Gerard Manley Hopkins's inner struggle between an inherently sensual nature and a puritanical Catholic faith. Geoffrey Beevers has set Making Space: Send My Roots Rain (Radio 4, 2.15pm) during Hopkins's last monastic retreat. Derek Jacobi plays the Jesuit poet and his biographer Norman White provides the interpolated commentary.