Poetry Please
First broadcast from 19900101 to 20100314.
The poems you want to hear.
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| Programme Catalogue - Details: 01 January 1990 | 19900101 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 08 January 1990 Previous in series: 11 December 1989 Description Pres Simon RAE. Peoms read by Eleanor BRON & Stephen Thorne. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The New Year - Edward Thomas [1.08] 02: The year's awakening - Thomas Hardy [0.49] 03: A new diary - Dannie Abse [1.25] read by the poet 04: Miss Thompson goes shopping - martin Armstrong [1.20} 05: New Year song - Ted Hughes [1.52] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) miss thompson goes shopping (poem) new year (poem) new year song (poem) the year's awakening (poem) a new diary (poem) Broadcast history 01 Jan 1990 11:50-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Thomas Hardy (Author) Ted Hughes (Author) Dannie Abse (Author) Edward Thomas (Author) Martin Armstrong (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Stephen Thorne (rdr) Eleanor Bron (rdr) Recorded on 1989-12-14. | |||
| 202C | 01 | 11 September | 20020908 | 20020914 | Roger McGough begins a new series of the poetry magazine with a selection of popular requests. Also featured are poems from a new collection compiled in response to 11 September. |
| 202C | 02 | Nature | 20020915 | 20020921 | Roger McGough introduces requests for favourite nature poems plus two winners from this year's BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year competition. |
| 202C | 03 | Cats | 20020922 | 20020928 | Roger McGough introduces requests for favourite cat poems, including ones by Stevie Smith and Charles Causley. |
| 202C | 04 | Comic Verses | 20020929 | 20021005 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for comic verses about cocoa, parsley, booze and PSYCHIATRISTs, read by Michael Fenton Stevens, Pippa Haywood, Michael Elwyn and Peter Marinker |
| 202C | 05 | Autumn | 20021006 | 20021012 | Roger McGough introduces a seasonal journey through the poetry of autumn, including verse by John Clare, Ted Hughes and Edward Thomas. |
| 202C | 06 | Birmingham Book Festival | 20021013 | 20021019 | Roger McGough presents a special edition of the magazine live from the BIRMINGHAM Book Festival, where he is joined by his former musical collaborator, guitarist Andy Roberts. |
| 202C | 07 | Birmingham Book Festival | 20021020 | 20021026 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of poetry requests from the BIRMINGHAM Book Festival, with readers Carole Boyd and Bill Wallis and musician Andy Roberts. |
| 202C | 08 | Christina Rossetti | 20021027 | 20021102 | Roger McGough presents the poetry magazine. This edition focuses on the verse of Christina Rossetti and includes a reading of Goblin Market. |
| 202C | 09 LAST | First World War | 20021103 | 20021109 | Roger McGough presents listeners' requests, including poems by Danny Abse and Paul Duncan. Plus a report on a major First World War poets exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. |
| 202D | 01 | Seasonal Offerings | 20021222 | 20021228 | Roger Mcgough presents the poetry request show. Including seasonal offerings from U A Fanthorpe, Laurie Lee and Patrick Kavanagh. |
| 202D | 02 | The New Year | 20021229 | 20030104 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. This edition features poems for the new year and includes verse by John Clare, Thomas Hardy and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. |
| 202D | 03 | 20030105 | 20030111 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. This edition features poems old and new and includes verse by Matthew Arnold, Wendy Cope and Ogden Nash. | |
| 202D | 04 | 20030112 | 20030118 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. Today's programme includes a Dorset dialect poem by William Barnes and a tale of the AUSTRALIAn outback by `Banjo' Patterson. | |
| 202D | 05 | 20030119 | 20030125 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. Today's programme includes Vikram Seth's tribute to those who SLEEP alone, C P Cavafy's Ithaka, and Carol Ann Duffy's Litany. | |
| 202D | 06 | The Hunting Of The Snark | 20030126 | 20030201 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. Today's programme features actor and writer Ken Campbell reciting Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. |
| 202D | 07 | Seasons | 20030202 | 20030208 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. Today's programme has a seasonal flavour and includes A February Morning by Leslie Norris and A February Thaw by John Clare. |
| 202D | 08 | 20030209 | 20030215 | Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. | |
| 202D | 09 LAST | Passionate And Tender Poems | 20030216 | 20030222 | Roger McGough with the poetry request show. This edition features passionate and tender poems by Shelley, Burns and Marvell, read by Imogen Stubbs, Andrew Sachs and Sean Barratt. |
| 203B | 01 | 20031228 | 20040103 | ||
| 203B | 01 | Actors Or Poets | 20030427 | 20030503 | Roger McGough presents a new series of the poetry request show, returning to the hot debate over whether it's best for actors to read the poems, or the poets themselves. |
| 203B | 02 | Charles Causley | 19970824 | 20040110 | Roger McGough introduces requests for the work of the late Charles Causley, one of the most popular poets of recent times. A special edition to celebrate the 80th birthday of Charles Causley, one of the century's last great popular poets. The programme comes from his home in Cornwall, where he talks about his life and reads a selection of his own work. |
| 203B | 02 | Charles Causley | 20040104 | 20040110 | Roger McGough introduces requests for the work of the late Charles Causley, one of the most popular poets of recent times. A special edition to celebrate the 80th birthday of Charles Causley, one of the century's last great popular poets. The programme comes from his home in Cornwall, where he talks about his life and reads a selection of his own work. |
| 203B | 02 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 20030504 | 20030510 | Roger McGough introduces popular poems, among them some sonnnets by the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the 175th anniversary of whose birth falls this week. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] News follows. / Roger McGough introduces popular poems, among them some sonnets by the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the 175th anniversary of whose birth falls this week. |
| 203B | 03 | Anon | 20040111 | 20040117 | Roger McGough introduces old ENGLISH ballads and witty rhymes in a programme featuring requests for verse by anonymous poets. |
| 203B | 03 | The Poetry Library | 20030511 | 20030517 | is fifty years old. Taking part in its anniversary celebrations, Roger McGough visits its home at the Royal Festival Hall in LONDON's South Bank Centre, taking requests for poems from members and staff alike. He also reveals the results of a poll conducted by the Poetry Library and the Poetry Book Society, indicating the favourite poems and poets of the last half century, among them works by Derek Mahon, Carol Ann Duffy, Stevie Smith and others. |
| 203B | 04 | The Eve Of St Agnes | 20040118 | 20040124 | Roger McGough presents the seasonal poem The Eve Of St Agnes by John Keats; a story of love, lust and legend that takes place over the course of a cold January night. |
| 203B | 04 | War Poetry | 20030518 | 20030524 | All a poet can do today is warn, wrote Wilfred Owen during the First World War. From the earliest times poets have written about the horrors and heroism of war. In today's programme Roger McGough presents a selection of war poetry requested by listeners. |
| 203B | 05 | Places | 20040125 | 20040131 | From a tea shop in Bath, through a snowy LONDON to a high tide on the coast of Lincolnshire, Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems inspired by places. |
| 203B | 05 | The Song Of Hiawatha | 20030525 | 20030531 | Roger McGough introduces extracts from Longfellow's classic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. The reader is Nigel Anthony |
| 203B | 06 | 20030601 | 20030607 | ||
| 203B | 06 | Rudyard Kipling | 20040201 | 20040207 | Roger McGough presents an edition of Poetry Please devoted to the verse of Rudyard Kipling, who is not only the author of the nation's favoourite poem, If, but is also the most requested poet on the programme. Reader Bill Wallis |
| 203B | 07 | Love | 20030608 | 20030614 | From grand passions and divine yearnings to curious obsessions and guilty secrets, Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite poems on the theme of love. The readers are Sean Barrett, Bonnie Hurren and Rupert Ward-Lewis. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] |
| 203B | 07 | Love | 20040208 | 20040214 | With Valentine's Day as inspiration, Roger McGough introduces a selection of listeners' requests on a theme that has inspired poets throughout the ages. |
| 203B | 08 | Blues And Hues | 20030615 | 20030621 | Roger Mcgough introduces listener's requests for poems the colour of summer. Read by Stephen Rea, Lorelei King, Helen Sheals, Michael Maloney and the poets Michael Longley and Billy Collins |
| 203B | 08 LAST | Feburary | 20040215 | 20040221 | Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite verse, as requested. |
| 203B | 09 | The Newborn And The Dead | 20030622 | 20030628 | Roger McGough presents listeners' choices of poetry for the newborn and the recently dead. With Stephen Rea, Jill Balcon, Helen Sheals and Michael Maloney |
| 203B | 10 LAST | Somewhere Else | 20030629 | 20030705 | Do you wish you were somewhere else? Roger McGough introduces poems listeners have selected about yearning for other times and places. With Stephen Rea, Lorelei King, Helen Sheals, Jill Balcon and Michael Maloney |
| 203C | 01 | Wildlife Magazine's Poet Of The Year | 20030914 | 20030920 | Roger McGough with requests for your favourite nature poems, read by Bonnie Hurren and Michael Elwyn, and celebrates with the winners of BBC Wildlife Magazine's 'Poet of the Year'. |
| 203C | 02 | Kathleen Raine | 20001008 | 20030927 | Frank Delaney introduces requests for poetry by WB Yeats and William Blake and features an interview and readings from their greatest living commentator, Kathleen Raine. Roger McGough presents listeners' choices and pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year. Readers are David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] / Roger McGough presents listeners' choices and pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year. Readers are David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash |
| 203C | 02 | Kathleen Raine | 20030921 | 20030927 | Frank Delaney introduces requests for poetry by WB Yeats and William Blake and features an interview and readings from their greatest living commentator, Kathleen Raine. Roger McGough presents listeners' choices and pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year. Readers are David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] / Roger McGough presents listeners' choices and pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year. Readers are David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash |
| 203C | 03 | Autumn | 20030928 | 20031004 | Roger McGough presents listeners' choices of poetry and pays tribute to Kathleen Raine, who died earlier this year. Readers are David Collins, Sally Cookson and Phyllida Nash |
| 203C | 04 | 20031005 | 20031011 | Roger McGough introduces requests for favourite poems by, among others, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and John Betjeman. The readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold. | |
| 203C | 05 | Medical Themes | 20031012 | 20031018 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems old and new by, among others, Rudyard Kipling, Dannie Abse, Keats and Simon Armitage. This week there's something of a medical theme to the poems, and the readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold |
| 203C | 06 | Poetry Society In London's Betterton St | 20031019 | 20031025 | In a special edition of Poetry Please Roger McGough visits the home of the Poetry Society in LONDON's Betterton St. He meets the staff, and takes requests for favourite poems from members all around the UK. Poems range from an eighth century Japanese one to Frank O'Hara's love song to Lana Turner. The readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold. |
| 203C | 07 | Childrens Poems | 20031026 | 20031101 | All age groups are welcome to Roger McGough's miscellany of favourite children's poems. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] / All age groups are welcome to Roger McGough's miscellany of favourite children's poems. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] |
| 203C | 08 | Natural World, Relationships, And Peace | 20031102 | 20031108 | Delight in the natural world, relationships and an Iraqi peace poem feature in Roger Mcgough's selection of listeners' favourites. Read by David Collins and Bonnie Hurren |
| 203C | 09 | 20031109 | 20031115 | ||
| 203C | 10 | The Waste Land | 20031116 | 20031122 | Fiona Shaw reads one of the greatest epics of the twentieth century, T S Eliot's The Waste Land, a poem detailing the human soul's journey in search of redemption. |
| 01 | 20061217 | 20061223 | Roger Mcgough opens a new series with gifts a-plenty, including treats from UA Fanthorpe, Laurie Lee and Elizabeth Jennings, in a seasonal edition. There is a tale of thespian misbehaviour during the school nativity and a salute to some of the less glamorous aspects of the season, like sorting out the Christmas tree lights. Robert Louis Stevenson tells us of windswept nostalgic thoughts of times long gone, and other offerings include gems from Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah. The readers are Tom Lawrence, Kate Littlewood and Patrick Romer. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 08 January 1990 | 19900108 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 15 January 1990 Previous in series: 01 January 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Michael Tudor BARNES, Liane AUKIN & guest poet Dannie ABSE. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Frost - W. H. Davies [0.37] 02: The snow curlew - Vernon Watkins [0.59] 03: I think I could turn and live with animals - Walt Whitman [0.44] 04: Friends - Dannie Abse [0.52] 05: The wind in a frolic - William Howitt [3.01] 06: Song of the sea - Rainer Maria Rilke [0.37] 07: The fighting Temeraire - Sir Henry Newbolt [1.39] 08: A walk in winter - Sean Street [1.02] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the wind in a frolic (poem) frost (poem) the snow curlew (poem) i think i could turn and live with animals (poem) friends (poem) (dannie abse) song of the sea (poem) fighting temeraire (poem) a walk in winter (poem) Broadcast history 08 Jan 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Dannie Abse (Author) Sean Street (Author) Walt Whitman (Author) W Davies (Author) Vernon Watkins (Author) Henry Newbolt (Author) Rainer Rilke (Author) William Howitt (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Michael Barnes (rdr) Liane Aukin (rdr) Recorded on 1989-12-14. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 15 January 1990 | 19900115 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 22 January 1990 Previous in series: 08 January 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Liane AUKIN, Michael Tudor BARNES & guest poet Dannie ABSE. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: To a snowflake - Francis Thompson [0.45] 02: Winter song - Vita Sackville-West [2.14] 03: The mountaineers - Dannie Abse [2.26] read by the poet 04: The ice cart - Wilfred Wilson Gibson [1.44] 05: Gunga Din - Rudyard Kipling [3.18] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the ice cart (poem) to a snowflake (poem) winter song (poem) the mountaineers (poem) gunga din (poem) Broadcast history 15 Jan 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Rudyard Kipling (Author) Dannie Abse (Author) Vita Sackville-West (Author) Francis Thompson (Author) Wilfred Gibson (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Michael Barnes (rdr) Liane Aukin (rdr) Recorded on 1989-12-14. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 22 January 1990 | 19900122 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 29 January 1990 Previous in series: 15 January 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Michael Tudor BARNES, Liane AUKIN & guest poet Dannie ABSE. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Thaw - Edward Thomas [0.17] 02: The destruction of Sennacherib - Lord Byron [1.15] 03: No more Hiroshimas - James Kirkup [4.03] 04: The friendship of young poets - Douglas Dunn [0.47] 05: Meg Merrilies - John Keats [1.07] 06: McAlister dances before the king - Anon [2.14] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) thaw (poem) the destruction of sennacherib (poem) no more hiroshimas (poem) the friendship of young poets (poem) meg merrilies (poem) mcalister dances before the king (poem) Broadcast history 22 Jan 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae George Byron (Author) John Keats (Author) Edward Thomas (Author) Douglas Dunn (Author) James Kirkup (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Michael Barnes (rdr) Liane Aukin (rdr) Dannie Abse (rdr) Recorded on 1989-12-14. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 29 January 1990 | 19900129 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 05 February 1990 Previous in series: 22 January 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Liane AUKIN, Michael Tudor BARNES & guest poet Dannie ABSE. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The snowdrop - Walter de la Mare [1.35] 02: Willow song - Anne Stevenson [2.20] 03: To his coy mistress - Andrew Marvell [2.03] 04: Arbor vitae - Coventry Patmore [1.33] 05: Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas [3.05] 06: Goodbye - Alun Lewis [1.51] 07: The winged horse - Hilaire Belloc [1.37] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) fern hill (poem) goodbye (poem) (Alun Lewis) to his coy mistress (poem) the snowdrop (poem) willow song (poem) arbor vitae (poem) winged horse (poem) Broadcast history 29 Jan 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Alun Lewis (Author) Dylan Thomas (Author) Walter de La Mare (Author) Hilaire Belloc (Author) Anne Stevenson (Author) Andrew Marvell (Author) Coventry Patmore (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Michael Barnes (rdr) Liane Aukin (rdr) Dannie Abse (rdr) Recorded on 1989-12-14. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 05 February 1990 | 19900205 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 12 February 1990 Previous in series: 29 January 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Caroline RYDER, Geoffrey BEEVERS & Carol Ann DUFFY. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Sonnet 34 - William Shakespeare [0.48] 02: By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross - Lionel Johnson [2.17] 03: Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration - Ernest Dowson [2.08] 04; Woman seated in the underground 1941 - Carol Ann Duffy [1.30] 05: The hound of heaven - Francis Thompson [4.07] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the hound of heaven (poem) sonnet no 34 (shakespeare) by the statue of king charles at charing cross (poem) nuns of the perpetual adoration woman seated in the underground 1941 (poem) Broadcast history 05 Feb 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors William Shakespeare (Author) Carol Duffy (Author) Francis Thompson (Author) Ernest Dowson (Author) Lionel Johnson (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Geoffrey Beevers (rdr) Caroline Ryder (rdr) Recorded on 1990-01-18. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 12 February 1990 | 19900212 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 19 February 1990 Previous in series: 05 February 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Geoffrey BEEVERS, Caroline RYDER & guest poet Caroline Ann DUFFY. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Shake hands - A. E. Housman [0.30] 02: I never shall love the snow again - Robert Bridges [1.25] 03: Sit at peace - Carol Ann Duffy [1.23] read by the poet 04: Remonstrance with the snails - Anon [1.45] 05: I do not love thee - Caroline Norton [1.15] 06: The cry of the children (extract) - Elizabeth Barett Browning [3.17] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) shake hands (poem) i never shall love the snow again (poem) sit at peace (poem) remonstrance with the snails (poem) i do not love thee (poem) the cry of the children (poem) Broadcast history 12 Feb 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Carol Duffy (Author) A Housman (Author) Elizabeth Browning (Author) Robert Bridges (Author) Caroline Norton (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Geoffrey Beevers (rdr) Caroline Ryder (rdr) Recorded on 1990-01-18. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19 February 1990 | 19900219 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 26 February 1990 Previous in series: 12 February 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Caroline RYDER, Geoffrey BEEVERS & guest poet Carol Ann DUFFY. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Rest - Christina Rossetti [0.52] 02: Prelude (extract) - William Wordsworth [2.01] 03: In schooldays - John Greenleaf Whittier [1.20] 04: The ballad of Reading gaol (extract) - Oscar Wilde [5.25] 05: In Japan - Michael Burn [1.04] 06: Broken moon - Carole Satyamurti [1.31] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) prelude (poem) ballad of reading gaol (poem) rest (poem) in schooldays (poem) in japan (poem) broken moon (poem) Broadcast history 19 Feb 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Wordsworth (Author) Oscar Wilde (Author) Christina Rossetti (Author) Michael Burn (Author) John Whittier (Author) Carole Satyamurti (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Geoffrey Beevers (rdr) Carol Duffy (rdr) Caroline Ryder (rdr) Recorded on 1990-01-18. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 26 February 1990 | 19900226 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 05 March 1990 Previous in series: 19 February 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Geoffrey BEEVERS, Caroline RYDER & guest poet Carol Ann DUFFY. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Beauty - John Masefield [0.42] 02: Boadicea - William Cowper [2.00] 03: Invictus - William Ernest Henley [0.47] 04: The Brook - Alfred, Lord Tennyson [1.44] 05: Thirty bob a week - John Davidson [5.09] 06: Paraphrases - Roy Fisher [3.18] 07: Preparations - Anon [1.17] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) beauty (poem) boadicea (poem) invictus (poem) the brook (poem) thirty bob a week (poem) paraphrases (poem) preparations (poem) Broadcast history 26 Feb 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Alfred Tennyson (Author) John Davidson (Author) John Masefield (Author) William Cowper (Author) Roy Fisher (Author) William Henley (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Geoffrey Beevers (rdr) Carol Duffy (rdr) Caroline Ryder (rdr) Recorded on 1990-01-18. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 05 March 1990 | 19900305 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 12 March 1990 Previous in series: 26 February 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Rosalind SHANKS, Garard GREEN & guest poet Fleur ADCOCK. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The miracle - John Drinkwater [0.53] 02: A March calf - Ted Hughes [2.15] 03: A way out - Fleur Adcock [1.25] 04: Hwaet! a dream came to me at deep midnight - Anon [3.00] 05: An old woman of the roads - Padraic Colum [1.03] 06: Rice pudding - A. A. Milne [1.00] 07: Victoriana: Mr Gradgrind's country - Sylvia Townsend Warner [1.51] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) old woman of the roads (poem) the miracle (poem) the march calf (poem) a way out (poem) hwaet a dream came to me at deep midnight (poem) rice pudding (poem) victoriana mr gradgrind's country (poem) Broadcast history 05 Mar 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Ted Hughes (Author) A Milne (Author) Fleur Adcock (Author) John Drinkwater (Author) Sylvia Warner (Author) Padraic Colum (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Garard Green (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Recorded on 1990-02-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 12 March 1990 | 19900312 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 19 March 1990 Previous in series: 05 March 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Garard GREEN, Rosalind SHANKS & guest poet Fleur ADCOCK. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Under snow - Rowena Touquet [1.00] 02: The song of the wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats [1.00] 03: Orient express - Grete Tartler [1.07] 04: Charles - Leonard Clark [1.30] 05: Mrs Malone - Eleanor Farjeon [4.00] 06: Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes - Thomas Gray [1.52] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) song of the wandering aengus (poem) under snow (poem) orient express (poem) charles (poem) mrs malone (poem) ode on the death of a favourite cat drowned in a tub of gold fish (poem) Broadcast history 12 Mar 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae W Yeats (Author) Eleanor Farjeon (Author) Thomas Gray (Author) Leonard Clark (Author) Rowena Touquet (Author) Grete Tartler (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Garard Green (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Fleur Adcock (rdr) Recorded on 1990-02-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19 March 1990 | 19900319 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 26 March 1990 Previous in series: 12 March 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Rosalind SHANKS, Garard GREEN & guest poet Fleur ADCOCK. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Song - Rupert Brook [0.34] 02: Spring flowers - James Thomson [1.40] 03: The motor bus - A. C. Godley [0.50] 04: Himalayan balsam - Anne Stevenson [2.40] 05: A valediction - John Donne [1.40] 06: The green eye of the yellow god - J. Milton Hayes [2.45] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) song (poem) (brooke) spring flowers (poem) the motor bus (poem) himalayan balsam (poem) valediction (poem) (John Donne) the green eye of the yellow god (poem) Broadcast history 19 Mar 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Donne (Author) Rupert Brooke (Author) Anne Stevenson (Author) James Thomson (Author) A Godley (Author) J Hayes (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Garard Green (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Fleur Adcock (rdr) Recorded on 1990-02-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 26 March 1990 | 19900326 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 02 April 1990 Previous in series: 19 March 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Garard GREEN, Rosalind SHANKS & guest poet Fleur ADCOCK. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Mountain flowers - Humbert Wolfe [0.50] 02: The telephone - Robert Frost [0.55] 03: Snake - D. H. Lawrence [4.43] 04: Dream-pedlary - Thomas Lovell Beddoes [1.50] 05: Game after supper - Margaret Atwood [0.57] 06: Ylysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson [4.36] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the snake (poem) ulysses (poem) mountain flowers (poem) the telephone (poem) dream pedlary (poem) game after supper (poem) Broadcast history 26 Mar 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae D Lawrence (Author) Alfred Tennyson (Author) Margaret Atwood (Author) Robert Frost (Author) Humbert Wolfe (Author) Thomas Beddoes (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Garard Green (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Fleur Adcock (rdr) Recorded on 1990-02-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 02 April 1990 | 19900402 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 09 April 1990 Previous in series: 26 March 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Andrew SACHS, Bonnie HURREN & guest poet Sir Stephen SPENDER. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Spring - Edna St. Vincent Millay [0.52] 02: The fish - Elizabeth Bishop [3.03] 03: Skunk hour - Robert Lowell [2.04] 04: The truly great - Stephen Spender [1.40] read by the poet 05: As I walked out one evening - W. H. Uaden [2.20] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) as i walked out one evening (poem) the truly great (poem) spring (poem by edna st vincent millay) the fish (poem) (Elizabeth Bishop) skunk hour (poem) Broadcast history 02 Apr 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae W Auden (Author) Stephen Spender (Author) Robert Lowell (Author) Edna Millay (Author) Elizabeth Bishop (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Bonnie Hurren (rdr) Recorded on 1990-03-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 09 April 1990 | 19900409 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 16 April 1990 Previous in series: 02 April 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Andrew SACHS, Bonnie HURREN & guest poet Sir Stephen SPENDER. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Sonnet 58 (You will remember me) - John Masefield [0.50] 02: On sleep & poetry - John Keats [3.15] 03: To Margot Heinemann - John Cornford [0.40] 04: Ultima ratio regum - Stephen Spender [1.43] read by the poet 05: Walking away - C. Day Lewis [1.11] 06: Domestic asides - Thoms Hood [1.25] 07: Executive - John Betjeman [1.40] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the executive (poem) walking away (poem) ultima ratio regum (poem) sonnet no 58 (john masefield) on sleep and poetry (poem) to margot heinemann (poem) domestic asides (poem) Broadcast history 09 Apr 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Betjeman (Author) Stephen Spender (Author) Cecil Day-Lewis (Author) John Keats (Author) John Masefield (Author) Thomas Hood (Author) John Cornford (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Bonnie Hurren (rdr) Recorded on 1990-03-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 16 April 1990 | 19900416 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 23 April 1990 Previous in series: 09 April 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Andrew SACHS. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Easter week - Charles Kingsley [0.41] 02: Easter - George Herbert [1.24] 03: The scholar gypsy - Matthew Arnold [13.46] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) verse easter week (poem) scholar gypsy (poem) Broadcast history 16 Apr 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae George Herbert (Author) Matthew Arnold (Author) Charles Kingsley (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Recorded on 1990-03-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 23 April 1990 | 19900423 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 30 April 1990 Previous in series: 16 April 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Andrew SACHS, Bonnie HURREN & guest poet Sir Stephen SPENDER. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: When daffodils begin to peer (from The Winter's Tale) - Shakespeare [0.39] 02: The crusader returns from captivity - G. K. Chesterton [2.23] 03: The pylons - Stephen Spender [1.12] read by the poet 04: John of Gaunt's dying speech (from Richard II) - Shakespeare [2.30] 05: Anne Frank huis - Andrew Motion [1.27] 06: Retrospect - Rupert Brooke [1.50] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) richard ii (play) a winter's tale (play) when daffodils begin to peer (poem) the crusader returns from captivity (poem) the pylons (poem) anne frank huis (poem) retrospect (poem) Broadcast history 23 Apr 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Shakespeare (Author) Andrew Motion (Author) Stephen Spender (Author) G Chesterton (Author) Rupert Brooke (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Bonnie Hurren (rdr) Recorded on 1990-03-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 30 April 1990 | 19900430 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 07 May 1990 Previous in series: 23 April 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Andrew SACHS, Bonnie HURREN & guest poet Sir Stephen SPENDER. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: In April - Mary Webb [1.40] A Shropshire lad (extracts) - A. E. Housman 02: Reveille [1.03] 03: O see how thick the goldcup flowers [1.24] 04: When the lad for longing sighs [1.38] 05: When smoke stood up from Ludlow [1.09] 06: What love poems say - Stephen Spender [1.04] read by the poet 07: Apple blossom - Louis MacNeice [1.17] 08: Vixi puellis nuper idoneus - Sir Thomas Wyatt [1.33] 09: To night - Percy Bysshe Shelley [1.47] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) shropshire lad (poetry collection) in april (poem) what love poems say (poem) apple blossom (poem) vixi puellis nuper idoneus (poem) to night (poem) Broadcast history 30 Apr 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Louis Macneice (Author) Stephen Spender (Author) A Housman (Author) Percy Shelley (Author) Thomas Wyatt (Author) Mary Webb (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Bonnie Hurren (rdr) Recorded on 1990-03-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19900507 | 19900507 | 07 May 1990 Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 14 May 1990 Previous in series: 30 April 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by David GOODLAND, Judith PEARSON & guest poet Adrian HENRI. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Reverie - P. B. McGuire [1.39] 02: May - William Barnes [2.20] 03: Tonight at noon - Adrian Henri [2.45] read by the poet accompanied by Andy ROBERTS (guitar) 04: The May queen - Alfred, Lord Tennyson [2.54] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) tonight at noon (poem) reverie (poem) may (poem) (barnes) the may queen (poem) Broadcast history 07 May 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Alfred Tennyson (Author) Adrian Henri (Author) William Barnes (Author) P Mcguire (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Judith Pearson (rdr) Recorded on 1990-04-23. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19900514 | 19900514 | 14 May 1990 Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 21 May 1990 Previous in series: 07 May 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Judith PEARSON, David GOODLAND & guest poet Adrian HENRI. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: To a poet a thousand years hence - Elroy Flecker [1.10] 02: A strike among the poets - Anon [1.22] 03: Tea with a poet - Adrian Henri [0.52] read by the poet 04: The boy actor - Noel Coward [3.30] from LP recording 05: Roundabouts & swings - Patrick Chalmers [1.56] 06: To a waterfowl - William Cullen Bryant [1.32] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) roundabouts and swings (poem) to a poet a thousand years hence (poem) a strike among the poets (poem) tea with the poet (poem) the boy actor (poem) to a waterfowl (poem) Broadcast history 14 May 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Noel Coward (Author) Adrian Henri (Author) Patrick Chalmers (Author) James Flecker (Author) William Bryant (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Judith Pearson (rdr) Recorded on 1990-04-23. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19900521 | 19900521 | 21 May 1990 Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 28 May 1990 Previous in series: 14 May 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by David GOODLAND, Judith PEARSON & guest poet Adrian HENRI. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Buttercup days (from Now we are six) - A. A. Milne [0.44] 02: The flowers - Rudyard Kipling [3.20] 03: First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels - Allen GInsberg [0.55] 04: Portland coliseum - Allen Ginsberg [1.30] 05: Uptown - Allen Ginsberg [1.00] 06: An essay in cricism (extract) - Alexander Pope [2.55] 07: The secret of the sea - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1.50] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) flowers (poem) buttercup days (poem) first party at ken keseys with hells angels (poem) portland coliseum (poem) uptown (poem) an essay on criticism (poem) the secret of the sea (poem) Broadcast history 21 May 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Rudyard Kipling (Author) A Milne (Author) Allen Ginsberg (Author) Henry Longfellow (Author) Alexander Pope (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Adrian Henri (rdr) Judith Pearson (rdr) Recorded on 1990-04-23. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19900528 | 19900528 | 28 May 1990 Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: HARDY POEMS Previous in series: 21 May 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Judith PEARSON, David GOODLAND & guest poet Adrian HENRI. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The hedge in summer - Louise Stockdale [0.53] 02: Cats - A. S. J. Tessimond [0.55] 03: Rover - Adrian Henri [0.48] 04: Lord hippo - Hilaire Belloc [1.40] 05: The barrel organ - Alfred Noyes [4.56] 06: Love is - Adrian Henri [1.05] read by the poet accompanied by Andy ROBERTS (guitar) 07: Enter a cloud - W. S. Graham [3.38] 08: Cat goddesses - Robert Graves [0.44] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) love is (poem) the hedge in summer (poem) cats (poem) rover (poem) lord hippo (poem) the barrel organ (poem) enter a cloud (poem) cat goddesses (poem) Broadcast history 28 May 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Robert Graves (Author) Adrian Henri (Author) Hilaire Belloc (Author) A Tessimond (Author) William Graham (Author) Alfred Noyes (Author) Louise Stockdale (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Judith Pearson (rdr) Recorded on 1990-04-23. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Hardy Poems | 19900604 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 11 June 1990 Previous in series: 28 May 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Hardy. Gues Dr. Alan CHEDZOY talks abt the life & work of Hardy & reads sex poems. Prod Susan ROBERTS. All poems by Thomas Hardy. 01: The self unseeing [0.38] 02: To Lizbie Browne [1.45] 03: The ruined maid [1.30] 04: During wind & rain [1.33] 05: At Castle Boterel [2.07] 06: The face at the casement [2.39] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) at castle boterel (poem) the ruined maid (poem) the self unseeing (poem) to lizbie browne (poem) during wind and rain (poem) the face at the casement (poem) Broadcast history 04 Jun 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Alan Chedzoy Thomas Hardy (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Recorded on 1990-05-23. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 11 June 1990 | 19900611 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 18 June 1990 Previous in series: HARDY POEMS Description 1/4 progs from Grasmere pres by Simon RAE with guest poet & playwright Tony HARRISON, who reads poems by William WORDSWORTH. Prod Susan ROBERTS. All poems by William Wordsworth 01: Nutting [3.25] 02: The world is too much with us [0.56] 03: My heart leaps up when I behold (a rainbow) [0.24] 04: Ode: Intimations of immortality [11.55] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) nutting (poem) the world is too much with us (poem) my heart leaps up when i behold (poem) ode intimations of immortality (poem) Broadcast history 11 Jun 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Wordsworth (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Tony Harrison (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-05. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 18 June 1990 | 19900618 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: WORDSWORTH MUSEUM Previous in series: 11 June 1990 Description 3/4 progs from Grasmere pres by Simon RAE with guests Dr. Robert WOOF & Tony HARRISON, who reads from the poetry of William WORDSWORTH. Prod Susan ROBERTS. All poems by William Wordsworth 01: To a butterfly [0.53] 02: The sparrow's nest [0.55] 03: To the cuckoo [1.27] 04: Surprised by joy [1.00] 05: A farewell [4.16] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) to a butterfly (poem) the sparrow's nest (poem) to the cuckoo (poem) surprised by joy (poem) a farewell (poem) (wordsworth) Broadcast history 18 Jun 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Robert Woof William Wordsworth (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Tony Harrison (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-02. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Wordsworth Museum | 19900625 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 02 July 1990 Previous in series: 18 June 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE from the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere. With guests Dr Robert WOOF & poet & playwright Tony HARRISON who reads from Wordsworth's poetry. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The daffodils [1.15] 02: Prelude (book 6) [2.06] 03: Prelude (book 9) [2.25] 04: Prelude (book 10) [2.28] 05: Prelude (book 10) [2.31] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) poetry daffodils (poem) prelude (poem) declamation Broadcast history 25 Jun 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Wordsworth (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Tony Harrison (rdr) Robert Woof (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-06-02. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 02 July 1990 | 19900702 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: TONY HARRISON Previous in series: WORDSWORTH MUSEUM Description 4/4 progs from Grasmere pres by Simon RAE with guest poet & playwright Tony HARRISON. Prod. Susan ROBERTS. 01: Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge [3.10] 02: To Wordsworth - Percy Bysshe Shelley [1.03] 03: Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley [1.00] 04: Ode on melancholy - John Keats [ 2.08] 05: A kumquat for John Keats - Tony Harrison [8.26] read by the poet Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) kubla khan (poem) ozymandias (poem) to wordsworth (poem) ode on melancholy (poem) a kumquat for John Keats (poem) Broadcast history 02 Jul 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Tony Harrison (Author) John Keats (Author) Samuel Coleridge (Author) Percy Shelley (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Recorded on 1990-06-02. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Tony Harrison | 19900709 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: Liz Lochhead Previous in series: 02 July 1990 Description Poetry Please Special in which Tony HARRISON gives the first public reading Pres Simon RAE with guest Tony HARRISON. The first public reading of a new poem by Tony HARRISON "The mother of the muses". Prod Susan ROBERTS. The mother of the muses - Tony HARRISON [18.14] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation the mother of the muses (poem) Broadcast history 09 Jul 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Tony Harrison (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Recorded on 1990-06-02. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Liz Lochhead | 19900716 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: Liz Lochhead Previous in series: TONY HARRISON Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Martin JARVIS, Elizabeth BELL & guest poet Liz LOCHHEAD. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: A summer wish - Christina Rossetti [1.00] 02: Scotland - Sir Alexander Gray [1.30] 03: Inversnaid - Gerard Manley Hopkins [0.48] 04: How have I been - Liz Lochhead [0.56] 05: A song of myself - John Keats [1.30] 06: One foot in Eden - edwin Muir [1.26] 07: A runnable stag - John Davidson [3.50] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) one foot in eden (poem) a summer wish (poem) scotland (poem) inversnaid (poem) how have i been (poem) a song of myself (poem) (John Keats) a runnable stag (poem) Broadcast history 16 Jul 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Davidson (Author) Gerard Hopkins (Author) John Keats (Author) Christina Rossetti (Author) Edwin Muir (Author) Alexander Gray (Author) Elizabeth Lochhead (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Martin Jarvis (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-20. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Liz Lochhead | 19900723 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: Liz Lochhead Previous in series: Liz Lochhead Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Elizabeth BELL, Martin JARVIS & guest poet Liz LOCHHEAD. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: At the mid hour of night - Thomas Moore [0.52] 02: A woman's last word - Robert Browning [1.19] 03: Clover - Liz Lochhead [1.03] 04: Childe Rolandine - Stevie Smith [1.47] 05: A man's a man for A' that - Robert Burns [1.50] 06: The story of Mrs W - Dorothy Parker [1.00] 07: The strange music - G. K. Chesterton [1.24] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) at the mid hour of night (poem) a woman's last word (poem) clover (poem) childe rolandine (poem) a man's a man for a' that (poem) the story of mrs w (poem) the strange music (poem) Broadcast history 23 Jul 1990 11:42-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Robert Burns (Author) Liz Lochhead (Author) Dorothy Parker (Author) Stevie Smith (Author) Robert Browning (Author) G Chesterton (Author) Thomas Moore (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Martin Jarvis (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-20. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Liz Lochhead | 19900730 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 06 August 1990 Previous in series: Liz Lochhead Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Martin JARVIS, Elizabeth BELL & guest poet Liz LOCHHEAD. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Summer sun - R. L. Stevenson [0.58] 02: As the team's head brass - Edward Thomas [2.10] 03: Glasgow green - Edwin Morgan [2.40] 04: The people's poet - Liz Lochhead [3.58] 05: The little green orchard - Walter de la Mare [1.22] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) glasgow green (poem) as the team's head brass (poem) summer sun (poem) the people's poet (poem) the little green orchard (poem) Broadcast history 30 Jul 1990 11:42-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Robert Stevenson (Author) Liz Lochhead (Author) Edward Thomas (Author) Walter de La Mare (Author) Edwin Morgan (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Martin Jarvis (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-20. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 06 August 1990 | 19900806 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: KENNETH BAKER Previous in series: Liz Lochhead Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Elizabeth BELL, Martin Jarvis & guest poet Liz LOCHHEAD. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Amy Elizabeth Ermyntrude Annie - E. Scott-Hopper [0.35] 02: To S. A. - T. E. Lawrence [1.08] 03: Summer in Wales - Joyce Grenfell [0.52] 04: Remembrances - John Clare [5.48] 05: For lovers - Rabindranath Tagore [1.16] 06: To speak of the woe that is - Robert Lowell [0.56] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) amy elizabeth ermintrude annie (poem) to s a (poem) summer in wales (poem) remembrances (poem) for lovers (poem) to speak of the woe that is (poem) Broadcast history 06 Aug 1990 11:42-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Joyce Grenfell (Author) John Clare (Author) T Lawrence (Author) Robert Lowell (Author) Rabindranath Tagore (Author) E Scott-Hopper (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Martin Jarvis (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Liz Lochhead (rdr) Recorded on 1990-06-20. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Kenneth Baker | 19900813 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 20 August 1990 Previous in series: 06 August 1990 Description As well as the usual requests, Simon RAE asks special guest Kenneth BAKER to Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 13 Aug 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae G Chesterton (Author) Henry Longfellow (Author) Anna de Bary (Author) Ella Wilcox (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Kate Mcall (Producer) Tim Pigott-Smith (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Kenneth Baker (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-07-19. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 20 August 1990 | 19900820 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 27 August 1990 Previous in series: KENNETH BAKER Description As well as the uusual requests, Simon RAE asks special guest Sheila HANCOCK Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Ronald PICKUP, Elizabeth BELL & guest Sheila HANCOCK. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The water mill - Sarah Doudney [2.37] 02: The bee meeting - Sylvia Plath [4.08] 03: The parting - Michael Drayton [0.48] 04: At lunchtime - Roger McGough [1.30] 05: Beth Gelert - William Robert Spencer [3.40] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation the parting (poem) water mill (poem) the bee meeting (poem) at lunchtime (poem) beth gelert (poem) Broadcast history 20 Aug 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Roger McGough (Author) Sylvia Plath (Author) Michael Drayton (Author) William Spencer (Author) Sarah Doudney (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Kate Mcall (Producer) Ronald Pickup (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Sheila Hancock (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-07-19. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 27 August 1990 | 19900827 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 03 September 1990 Previous in series: 20 August 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Rosalind SHANKS, Tim PIGOTT-SMITH & guest Alan Bennett. Prod Susan ROBERTS & Kate McALL. 01: He wishes for the cloths of heaven - W. B. Yeats [0.27] 02: Consumer complaint - C. Marjorie Smith [1.45] 03: The owl critic - James T. Fields [3.07] 04: MCMXIV - Philip Larkin [1.11] 05: The curfew must not ring tonight - Rosa Hartwick Thorpe [4.32] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the owl critic (poem) he wishes for the cloths of heaven (poem) consumer complaint (poem) mcmxiv (poem) the curfew must not ring tonight (poem) Broadcast history 27 Aug 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Philip Larkin (Author) W Yeats (Author) C Smith (Author) James Fields (Author) Rosa Thorpe (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Kate Mcall (Producer) Tim Pigott-Smith (rdr) Alan Bennett (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Recorded on 1990-07-19. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 03 September 1990 | 19900903 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 500TH EDITION Previous in series: 27 August 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Elizabeth BELL, Ronald PICKUP & guest Margaret DRABBLE. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - Shakespeare [0.49] 02: Barbara Frietsche - John Greenleaf Whittier [2.55] 03: Personal talk - William Wordsworth [3.14] 04: The harper - Thomas Campbell [1.32] 05: Hateful old age - Anon [1.58] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) shall i compare thee to a summers day (sonnet) barbara frietsche (poem) personal talk (poem) the harper (poem) hateful old age (poem) Broadcast history 03 Sep 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Shakespeare (Author) William Wordsworth (Author) Thomas Campbell (Author) John Whittier (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Ronald Pickup (rdr) Elizabeth Bell (rdr) Margaret Drabble (rdr) Recorded on 1990-07-19. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 500th Edition | 19900910 | Next in series: 17 September 1990 Previous in series: 03 September 1990 Description Simon RAE intros special prog to celebrate the 500th edition. Recorded at the Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) request programmes (genre) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 10 Sep 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Shakespeare (Author) Noel Coward (Author) Robert Graves (Author) Rupert Brooke (Author) John Magee (Author) Alfred Noyes (Author) William Howitt (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr). | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 17 September 1990 | 19900917 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: JOHN WHITWORTH Previous in series: 500TH EDITION Description Pres Simon RAE. Special ed recorded at the Salisbury Festival. Poems read by Rosalind SHANKS & Andrew SACHS, Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: How do I love thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning [0.50] 02: Love songs in age - Philip Larkin [1.10] 03: The well of St. Keyne - Robert Southey [2.44] 04: The rime of the ancient mariner - Coleridge [5.40] 05: The singing cat - Stevie Smith [0.51] 06: Sir Smashem Uppe - E. V. Rieu [1.50] 07: The king's breakfast - A. A. Milne [1.46] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) rime of the ancient mariner (poem) the king's breakfast (poetry) how do i love thee (poem) love songs in age (poem) the well of st keyne (poem) the singing cat (poem) sir smashem uppe (poem) Broadcast history 17 Sep 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Philip Larkin (Author) Stevie Smith (Author) A Milne (Author) Samuel Coleridge (Author) Elizabeth Browning (Author) Robert Southey (Author) E Rieu (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Andrew Sachs (rdr) Rosalind Shanks (rdr) Recorded on 1990-09-07. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Whitworth | 19900924 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 01 October 1990 Previous in series: 17 September 1990 Description Simon RAE introduces your poetry requests with readers Lin SAGOVSKY & David Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) request programmes (genre) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 24 Sep 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae D Lawrence (Author) Philip Larkin (Author) A Herbert (Author) John Whitworth (Author) Walter Raleigh (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Lin Sagovsky (rdr) Recorded on 1990-09-13. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 01 October 1990 | 19901001 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 08 October 1990 Previous in series: JOHN WHITWORTH Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by David GOODLAND, Lin SAGOVSKY with guest poet John WHITWORTH. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Digging - Edward Thomas [0.45] 02; Exequy on his wife (extract) - Henry King [1.44] 03: A song: Absent from thee - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester [0.56] 04: To his mistress going to bed - John Donne [3.21] 05: Holy Willie's prayer - Robert Burns [3.15] poem read on LP by Donald McINTYRE 06: Fidele's grassy tomb - Henry Newbolt [3.20] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) digging (poem) holy willie's prayer (poem) to his mistress going to bed (poem) exequy on his wife (poem) absent from thee (poem) fidele's grassy tomb (poem) Broadcast history 01 Oct 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Robert Burns (Author) Edward Thomas (Author) John Donne (Author) Henry Newbolt (Author) Henry King (Author) John Rochester (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Lin Sagovsky (rdr) John Whitworth (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-09-13. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 08 October 1990 | 19901008 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 15 October 1990 Previous in series: 01 October 1990 Description Simon RAE introduces your poetry requests with readers Lin SAGOVSKY & David Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) request programmes (genre) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 08 Oct 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Keats (Author) Christina Rossetti (Author) Ben Jonson (Author) Charlotte Mew (Author) E Cummings (Author) Anne Sexton (Author) Michael Drayton (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) David Goodland (rdr) Lin Sagovsky (rdr) John Whitworth (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-09-13. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 15 October 1990 | 19901015 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 22 October 1990 Previous in series: 08 October 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by John MATSHIKIZA, Elaine IVES-CAMERON & guest poet Derek WALCOTT. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Frog autumn - Sylvia Plath [0.42] 02: Autumn chapter in a novel - Thom Gunn [1.47] 03: Ruins of a great house - Derek Walcott [3.23] 04: Diving into the wreck - Adrienne Rich [3.39] 05: Returning turtle - Robert Lowell [0.55] 06: The mistress - Joan Barton [1.15] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) ruins of a great house (poem) frog autumn (poem) autumn chapter in a novel (poem) diving into the wreck (poem) returning turtle (poem) the mistress (poem) (joan barton) Broadcast history 15 Oct 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Sylvia Plath (Author) Thom Gunn (Author) Derek Walcott (Author) Robert Lowell (Author) Joan Barton (Author) Adrienne Rich (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) John Matshikiza (rdr) Elaine Ives-Cameron (rdr) Recorded on 1990-09-30. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 22 October 1990 | 19901022 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 29 October 1990 Previous in series: 15 October 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Elaine IVES-CAMERON, John MATSHIKIZA & guest poet Derek WALCOTT. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: Autumn - Roy Campbell [1.05] 02: Occupation housewife - Natasha Josefowitz [0.46] 03: The box of chocolates - Natsha Josefowitz [0.38] 04: Sea grapes - Derek Walcott [1.06] 05: Midsummer XIV - Derek Walcott [1.38] 06: Autumn - William Watson [2.11] 07: Dane-geld - Rudyard Kipling [1.19] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) sea grapes (poem) autumn (poem) (roy campbell) occupation housewife (poem) the box of chocolates (poem) midsummer xiv autumn (poem) (william watson) danegeld (poem) Broadcast history 22 Oct 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Rudyard Kipling (Author) Derek Walcott (Author) William Watson (Author) Roy Campbell (Author) Natasha Josefowitz (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) John Matshikiza (rdr) Elaine Ives-Cameron (rdr) Recorded on 1990-09-30. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 29 October 1990 | 19901029 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 05 November 1990 Previous in series: 22 October 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by John MATSHIKIZA, Elaine IVES-CAMERON, & guest poet Derek WALCOTT 01: Cirque d'hiver - Elizabeth Bishop [1.25] 02: Old man - Edward Thomas [2.24] 03: On this island - W. H. Auden [0.57] 04: The anniversary - John Donne [1.50] 05: Omeros (2 extracts from Chapters VIII & LXIV) - Derek Walcott [3.07 & 2.23] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) the anniversary (poem) omeros (poem) old man (poem) cirque d'hiver (poem) on this island (poem) Broadcast history 29 Oct 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae W Auden (Author) Edward Thomas (Author) John Donne (Author) Derek Walcott (Author) Elizabeth Bishop (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) John Matshikiza (rdr) Elaine Ives-Cameron (rdr) Recorded on 1990-09-30. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 05 November 1990 | 19901105 | Producer: P. BRIGHTON Next in series: 12 November 1990 Previous in series: 29 October 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Special edition featuring Irish poets. Poems read by Ruth MCCABE, Ian MCELHINNEY & guest poet Paul DURCAN. Prod Pam BRIGHTON. 01: The four Farrelly's - Percy French [3.34] read by RM 02: A big connection - John Kelly [2.15] read by IM 03: The centre of the universe - Paul Durcan [3.22] read by the poet 08: The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats [3.06] archive reading by the poet 04: When you are old - W. B. Yeats [0.48] read by IM 05: The good - Brendan Kennelly [1.11] read by RM 06: At ards - Michael Harnett [0.40] read by RM 07: Nostalgis - Derek Mahon [0.17] read by IM Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) poetry declamation the lake isle of innisfree (poem) when you are old (poem) the four farrellys (poem) a big connection (poem) the centre of the universe (poem) the good (poem) (kennelly) at ards (poem) nostalgis (poem) Broadcast history 05 Nov 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae W Yeats (Author) John Kelly (Author) Derek Mahon (Author) Brendan Kennelly (Author) Paul Durcan (Author) Michael Harnett (Author) Percy French (Author) Pam Brighton (Producer) Ian Mcelhinney (rdr) Ruth Mccabe (rdr) Recorded on 1990-10-15. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 12 November 1990 | 19901112 | Producer: P. BRIGHTON Next in series: 19 November 1990 Previous in series: 05 November 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Special edition featuring Irish poets. Poems read by Ruth MCCABE, Ian MCELHINNEY & guest poet Paul DURCAN. Prod Pam BRIGHTON. 01: Meeting point - Louis McNeice [1.59] read by IM 02: John John - Thomas McDonagh [2.01] read by RM 03: God in woman - Patrick Kavanagh [0.45] read by IM 04: The divorce referendum - Paul Durcan [2.51] read by the poet 05: The did you come yets of the western world - Rita Ann Higgins [1.22] read by RM 06: A cry for Art O'Leary - Brendan Kennelly [3.27] read by RM 07: The cathedral - Sam Burnside [0.51] read by RM Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) poetry declamation divorce referendum 1986 (poem) meeting point (poem) john john (poem) god in woman (poem) the did you come yets of the western world (poem) the cry for art o'leary (poem) the cathedral (poem) Broadcast history 12 Nov 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Patrick Kavanagh (Author) Brendan Kennelly (Author) Paul Durcan (Author) Louis Mcneice (Author) Sam Burnside (Author) Mary Higgins (Author) Thomas Mcdonagh (Author) Pam Brighton (Producer) Ian Mcelhinney (rdr) Ruth Mccabe (rdr) Recorded on 1990-10-15. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 19 November 1990 | 19901119 | Producer: P. BRIGHTON Next in series: 26 November 1990 Previous in series: 12 November 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Special edition featuring Irish poets. Poems read by Ruth MCCABE, Ian MCELHINNEY & guest poet Paul DURCAN. Prod Pam BRIGHTON. 01: Ballad of Douglas Bridge - Francis Carlin [1.21] read by RM 02: The butcher's dozen (extract) - Thomas Kinsella [2.45] read by IM 03: Dublin-Belfast railway line - Paul Durcan [1.36] read by the poet 04: For any women who pass this house - John Hewitt [0.50] read by IM 05: The coasters - John Hewitt [3.14] read by RM 06: Desertmartin - Tom Paulin [1.58] read by IM 07: Canton of expectation - Seamus Heaney [2.30] read by RM Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) poetry declamation the ballad of douglas bridge (poem) the butcher's dozen (poem) dublin belfast railway line (poem) for any women who pass this house (poem) the coasters (poem) desertmartin (poem) canton of expectation (poem) Broadcast history 19 Nov 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Tom Paulin (Author) Seamus Heaney (Author) Paul Durcan (Author) Thomas Kinsella (Author) John Hewitt (poet (auth)) (Author) Francis Carlin (Author) Pam Brighton (Producer) Ian Mcelhinney (rdr) Ruth Mccabe (rdr) Recorded on 1990-10-15. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 26 November 1990 | 19901126 | Producer: P. BRIGHTON Next in series: 03 December 1990 Previous in series: 19 November 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Special edition featuring Irish poets. Poems read by Ruth McCABE, Ian MCELHINNEY & guest poet Paul DURCAN. Prod Pam BRIGHTON. 01: Delver - Michael Hartnett [1.20] read by IM 02: Leinster Street ghosts (extract) - Dermot Bolger [1.41] read by RM 03: Doris Fashions - Paul Durcan [2.40] read by the poet 04: Clearances - Seamus Heaney [0.54] read by IM 05: Lapis Lazuli - W. B. Yeats [2.42] read by IM 06: The linen industry - Michael Longley [1.20] read by IM 07: The Duncairn cinema - Sheila McGuiness [0.51] read by IM 08: September Journal - Louis MacNeice [3.28] read by IM Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) poetry declamation doris fashions (poem) the linen industry (poem) delver (poem) leinster street ghosts (poem) clearances (poem) lapis lazuli (poem) september journal (poem) duncairn cinema (poem) Broadcast history 26 Nov 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Seamus Heaney (Author) W Yeats (Author) Louis Macneice (Author) Michael Longley (Author) Paul Durcan (Author) Dermot Bolger (Author) Michael Harnett (Author) Sheila Mcguiness (Author) Pam Brighton (Producer) Ian Mcelhinney (rdr) Ruth Mccabe (rdr) Recorded on 1990-10-15. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 03 December 1990 | 19901203 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 10 December 1990 Previous in series: 26 November 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Emma FIELDING, Nick CHIVERS & John MATSHIKIZA. Guest Nicola DAVIES takes a look at poetry book for children. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The soldiers came - John Agard [0.40] read by a schoolchild 02: I get high on butterflies - Joe Rosenblatt [0.33] read by a schoolchild 03: Laughter is an egg - John Agard [0.13] 04: The muddy puddle - Dennis Lee [ 0.16] 05: Penguin on the beach - Ruth Miller [0.35] 06: The lamplighter - R. L. Stevenson [0.52] 07: A mind's journey to Diss - John Betjeman [1.09] 08: Reply to the laureate - Mary Wilson [1.49] 09: Hiawatha's departure - Longfellow [3.14] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) soldiers came (poem) i get high on butterflies (poem) laughter is an egg (poem) the muddy puddle (poem) penguin on the beach (poem) the lamplighter (poem) a mind's journey to diss (poem) reply to the laureate (poem) hiawatha's departure (poem) Broadcast history 03 Dec 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Betjeman (Author) Mary Wilson (Author) Robert Stevenson (Author) John Agard (Author) Henry Longfellow (Author) Dennis Lee (Author) Ruth Miller (Author) Joe Rosenblatt (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Emma Fielding (rdr) John Matshikiza (rdr) Nick Chilvers (rdr) Nicola Davies (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-11-28. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 10 December 1990 | 19901210 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 17 December 1990 Previous in series: 03 December 1990 Description Pres Simon RAE. Poems read by Emma FIELDING & Damian JENNINGS, winners of this years BP Speak a Poem competition. Competition judge Betty MULCAHY talks abt reading poetry. Prod Susan ROBERTS. 01: The owl song (from Love's Labours Lost) - William Shakespeare [0.55] 02: Nature and free animals - Stevie Smith [1.05] 03: Red boots on - Kit Wright [0.45] 04: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - Dylan Thomas [1.15] 05: Not waving but drowning - Stevie Smith [0.45] 06: January gladsong - Brian Patten [0.57] 07: Ode to a nightingale - John Keats [5.00] Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) love's labour's lost (play) not waving but drowning (poem) ode to a nightingale (poem) the owl song (poem) nature and free animals (poem) red boots on (poem) the force that through the green fuse drives the flower (poem) january gladsong (poems) Broadcast history 10 Dec 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae William Shakespeare (Author) Brian Patten (Author) Dylan Thomas (Author) John Keats (Author) Stevie Smith (Author) Kit Wright (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Emma Fielding (rdr) Damian Jennings (rdr) Betty Mulcahy (Speaker) Recorded on 1990-11-22. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 17 December 1990 | 19901217 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 31 December 1990 Previous in series: 10 December 1990 Description Simon RAE introduces your Christmas poetry requests, with readers Emma FIELD- Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) request programmes (genre) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 17 Dec 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae John Betjeman (Author) T Eliot (Author) John Clare (Author) Laurie Lee (Author) G Chesterton (Author) Christina Rossetti (Author) Robert Herrick (Author) Clement Moore (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Emma Fielding (rdr) Nick Chilvers (rdr) Recorded on 1990-11-28. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 31 December 1990 | 19901231 | Producer: ROBERTS, S Next in series: 14 January 1991 Previous in series: 17 December 1990 Description Simon RAE introduces a selection of poetry for New Year's Eve, with readers Subject Categories readings programmes (programme format) request programmes (genre) arts programmes (genre) poetry declamation Broadcast history 31 Dec 1990 11:40-12:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Simon Rae Thomas Hardy (Author) Ted Hughes (Author) Robert Burns (Author) Philip Larkin (Author) Alfred Tennyson (Author) Anthony Thwaite (Author) Ogden Nash (Author) Frances Horovitz (Author) Richard Wilbur (Author) Susan Roberts (Producer) Nick Chilvers (rdr) Betty Mulcahy (rdr) Recorded on 1990-11-28. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 03 September 1995 | 19950903 | Producer: ROBERT KETTERIDGE Next in series: ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER Previous in series: 27 August 1995 Broadcast history 03 Sep 1995 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-07-31. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Attila The Stockbroker | 19950910 | Producer: JULIAN WILKINSON Next in series: 17 September 1995 Previous in series: 03 September 1995 Broadcast history 10 Sep 1995 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-09-05. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 17 September 1995 | 19950917 | Producer: ERIN RILEY Next in series: 24 September 1995 Previous in series: ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER Broadcast history 17 Sep 1995 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-09-07. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 24 September 1995 | 19950924 | Producer: ROBERT KETTERIDGE Next in series: 01 October 1995 Previous in series: 17 September 1995 Broadcast history 24 Sep 1995 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-07-31. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 07 January 1996 | 19960107 | Producer: F.GOODALL Next in series: 14 January 1996 Previous in series: HOGMANAY SPECIAL Broadcast history 07 Jan 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-12-15. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: 14 January 1996 | 19960114 | Producer: R. KETTERIDGE Next in series: Walter De La Mare Previous in series: 07 January 1996 Broadcast history 14 Jan 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-01-08. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Walter De La Mare | 19960121 | Producer: F.GOODALL Next in series: BURNS NIGHT Previous in series: 14 January 1996 Broadcast history 21 Jan 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-01-10. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Burns Night | 19960128 | Producer: F.GOODALL Next in series: POETRY ON THE INTERNET Previous in series: Walter De La Mare Broadcast history 28 Jan 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-01-08. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Poetry On The Internet | 19960204 | Producer: F. GOODALL Next in series: VALENTINE'S SPECIAL 1 Previous in series: BURNS NIGHT Broadcast history 04 Feb 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-02-01. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Valentine's Special 1 | 19960211 | Producer: E.RILEY Next in series: VALENTINE'S SPECIAL 2 Previous in series: POETRY ON THE INTERNET Broadcast history 11 Feb 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-02-06. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Valentine's Special 2 | 19960218 | Producer: E.RILEY Next in series: YOUNG POETRY COMPETITION Previous in series: VALENTINE'S SPECIAL 1 Broadcast history 18 Feb 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-02-06. | |||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Young Poetry Competition | 19960225 | Producer: E. RILEY Next in series: A. E. HOUSEMAN 1/2 Previous in series: VALENTINE'S SPECIAL 2 Broadcast history 25 Feb 1996 17:30-17:50 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-02-21. | |||
| Merseyside | 19970622 | Adrian Henri canvasses poets and poetry lovers on Merseyside for their favourite poems. | |||
| James Mcauley And David Campbell | 19970706 | `Poet's Poetry Please!' Les Murray, one of AUSTRALIA's most widely read poets, introduces favourite work by two of his predecessors - James McAuley and David Campbell. | |||
| George Mackay Brown | 19970727 | `Poet's Poetry Please'. Kathleen Jamie, one of the foremost of a new generation of Scottish poets, pays tribute to George Mackay Brown, who died last year. | |||
| 19970810 | Poet and broadcaster Sarah Maguire introduces four programmes from Cornwall, exploring the idea of summer and reflecting old and new visions of the peninsula. | ||||
| Special | 19970906 | ||||
| The Poet And The General | 20030406 | 20030412 | Don Taylor introduces the story of the poet Andrew Marvells two years in literary seclusion, at Nunappleton House in YORKshire, with the retired Lord General of the New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax. Marvell....Anton Lesser Fairfax....Edward Petherbridge Directed by Ellen Dryden. | ||
| 20040425 | 20040502 | Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite verse. This edition features T S Eliot's Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, plus pieces by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] | |||
| 20040509 | 20040515 | Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite verse. This edition features T S Eliot's Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, plus pieces by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite verse. This edition features T S Eliot's Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, plus pieces by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] Roger McGough celebrates the legacy of former Poet Laureate John Betjeman, who died twenty years ago this week. Readers are Alice Arnold and Peter Marinker. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] | |||
| 20040509 | 20040516 | Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite verse. This edition features T S Eliot's Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, plus pieces by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] Roger McGough presents listeners' favourite verse. This edition features T S Eliot's Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock, plus pieces by UA Fanthorpe and Alfred Noyes. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] Roger McGough celebrates the legacy of former Poet Laureate John Betjeman, who died twenty years ago this week. Readers are Alice Arnold and Peter Marinker. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] | |||
| Sir john Betjeman | 20040516 | 20040522 | Roger McGough introduces poetry by EE Cummings, Vernon Scannell and Billy Collins on the themes of life, death and renewal. Read by Alice Arnold, Peter Marinker and David Collins. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] Roger McGough celebrates the legacy of the former Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, who died twenty years ago this week. We'll hear an excerpt from Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, and Roger interviews his biographer, Bevis Hillier, who's spent the best part of thirty years researching and writing up the life of Betjeman. Other poetry will be read by Alice Arnold and Peter Marinker | ||
| Sir john Betjeman | 20040516 | 20040523 | Roger McGough introduces poetry by EE Cummings, Vernon Scannell and Billy Collins on the themes of life, death and renewal. Read by Alice Arnold, Peter Marinker and David Collins. [Rpt of Sun, 4.30pm] Roger McGough celebrates the legacy of the former Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, who died twenty years ago this week. We'll hear an excerpt from Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, and Roger interviews his biographer, Bevis Hillier, who's spent the best part of thirty years researching and writing up the life of Betjeman. Other poetry will be read by Alice Arnold and Peter Marinker | ||
| Life, Death, And Renewal | 20040523 | 20040529 | Roger Mcgough introduces poetry by E E Cummings, Vernon Scannell and Billy Collins on the themes of life, death and renewal. Read by Alice Arnold, Peter Marinker and David Collins. | ||
| 20040530 | Roger McGough samples a rich vein of poetic inspiration at Dylan Thomas' old local in Laugharne, South Wales. He celebrates the links between poetry and the pub, with readers Pat Hughes and Nigel Jenkins. | ||||
| 20040606 | 20040612, RptofSun4.30pm, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger McGough introduces requests for poems reflecting the wartime experience of life away from the battlefields. Alongside work by well-known figures like Noel Coward and Edith Sitwell, we hear powerfully descriptive verse by much less well-known young women poets of the days, whose work sheds a revelaing light on the realities of life on the home front. The readers are Pat Hughes, David Collins and Bonnie Hurren. Roger McGough introduces requests for poems reflecting the wartime experience of life away from the battlefields. Alongside work by well-known figures like Noel Coward and Edith Sitwell, we hear powerfully descriptive verse by much less well-known young women poets of the days, whose work sheds a revealing light on the realities of life on the home front. | |||
| Wildlife Magazine Poetry Competition 2004 | 20040926 | 20041002 | Roger McGough returns with a selection of favourite poems inspired by the animal kingdom, including the winners of the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poetry Competition 2004. The readers are Miriam Margolyes and David Collins. | ||
| 20041010 | 20041016 | Roger McGough's selection includes Virginia Graham's Missed Opportunity, James Fenton's The Skip and ASJ Tessimond's Talk in the Night. Read by Miriam Margolyes and David Collins. [Rpt of Sun 4.30pm] | |||
| Radio | 20041017 | 20041023 | Poet and professor of radio, Sean Street, joins Roger McGough to celebrate sounds, radio and the joy of listening. The readers are Sally Cookson, David Collins and Jamie Glover. Making a special guest appearance are radio 4 announcers Charlotte Green and Peter Jefferson who read a poem about the shipping forecast. | ||
| 20041024 | 20041030, RptofSun4.30pm | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of poems on the theme of ageing, with Sally Cookson, David Collins and Jamie Glover. Dannie Abse reads a love poem to his wife. [Rpt Sat, 11.30pm] Roger Mcgough presents poems on the weather by Thomas Hardyand William Howitt - and on poetry readings by D J Enright and Basil Bunting. The programme includes a tribute to the late Michael Donaghy. The readers are Alice Arnold, Sean Barrett and Bonnie Hurren. | |||
| Michael Donaghy | 20041031 | 20041106, RptSat,11.30pm | Roger Mcgough presents poems on the weather by Thomas Hardy and William Howitt - and on poetry readings by D J Enright and Basil Bunting. The programme includes a tribute to the late Michael Donaghy. The readers are Alice Arnold, Sean Barrett and Bonnie Hurren. | ||
| Stimulating The Senses | 20041107 | 20041113 | Roger Mcgough presents poetry which stimulates the senses, including poems by Jenny Joseph, DH Lawrence and John Agard. Readers are Alice Arnold and Sean Barrett. [Rpt of Sun 4.30pm] | ||
| 20041212 | 20041218 | Roger McGough introduces poems by authors including Carol Ann Duffy, Coleridge, Ken Smith and Jenny Joseph. The readers are Bonnie Hurren and David Collins. | |||
| Seasonal Verse | 20041214 | 20041219 | Roger McCough has a feast of seasonal verse with works by UA Fanthorpe, Helen Dunmore and William Wordsworth acknowledging more than just the joys of a healthy appetite. | ||
| 20041219 | 20041225 | Roger McGough introduces poems by authors including UA Fanthorpe, Helen Dunmore and William Wordsworth. [Rpt of Sun 4.30pm] | |||
| 20041226 | 20050101 | Roger Mcgough presents a New Year edition featuring requests for pieces by predominantly Scottish poets, including George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Jamie and Don Patterson. | |||
| Poetry For Children | 20050102 | 20050108 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of poetry for children by a range of authors including Edwin Morgan, Lewis Carroll, TS Eliot and Hilaire Belloc. | ||
| The Language Of Music | 20050109 | 20050115 | Poetry shares much with music, such as metre and rhythm. In this edition, Roger McGough presents requests for poems that celebrate the musicality of language, and the language of music. It includes poems by Don Paterson, Anne Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe and the fiddler and poet Michael Donaghy, who died last September. | ||
| Ballad Of Reading Gaol | 20050116 | 20050122 | Roger Mcgough introduces Sam West's reading of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful work describing Wilde's experience of the hanging of a fellow inmate. | ||
| 20050123 | 20050129 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including poems by Edwin Muir and Thomas Warton the Elder. | |||
| Darkling | 20050130 | 20050205 | Roger McGough introduces a darkling selection of poems for the long evenings, including Simon Armitage reading his own 'To His Lost Lover'. With some rays of light from Osip Mandelshtam, E E Cummings, and Edward Thomas. The readers are Jamie Glover, Brigid Zengeni and Sean Barrett. | ||
| Wonder | 20050206 | 20050212 | Roger McGough introduces poems about wonder, including Raymond Carver's Happiness and Henry Sandon reading Martin Armstrong's Miss Thompson Goes Shopping. | ||
| 20050515 | 20050521 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry. This edition includes listeners' requests for pieces by Shakespeare, Larkin, Emily Dickinson and Tom Waits. | |||
| 20050522 | 20050528 | Roger McGough presents the poetry show, and compares how different poets consider life's perennial themes. Featured poets include Billy Collins and Raymond Carver. | |||
| 20050529 | 20050604 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry about objects of desire, ranging from the carnal to the spiritual, to the distinctly materialistic. Featured authors include Michael Ondaatje, Byron and Yevtushenko. | |||
| 20050605 | 20050611 | Poetry Please goes for a paddle - dipping its big toe into literature's rushing stream of works on water. Roger McGough introduces requests for poems by, among others, Philip Larkin, Sophie Hannah and Christopher Marlowe | |||
| 20050612 | 20050618 | Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests, including Gerald Manley Hopkins's masterpiece The Wreck of the Deutschland, read by Janet Suzman. | |||
| 20050619 | 20050625 | Roger McGough gets into training for a summer of sport and outdoor activities by introducing requests for poems that celebrate achievements on and off the field, with verse about cricket, SWIMMING, horse racing and football. | |||
| Engineering | 20050626 | 20050702 | Poets aren't generally known for their love of the hard sciences such as engineering and construction. Nevertheless, Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that celebrate some of mankind's greatest inventions, among them steam trains, magnificent bridges, and the humble bicycle. | ||
| Anon | 20050703 | 20050709 | This programme focuses on pieces by anon, the most prolific of all poets. | ||
| Parodies | 20050710 | 20050716 | Roger McGough introduces requests that mine the rich poetic seam of parodies, some of them very funny, mocking their more serious classic counterparts. Among them, Monty Python's alternative version of those familiar verses - All Things Bright and Beautiful. | ||
| 20050925 | 20051001 | Roger Mcgough opens a new season with a lively and varied selection of the poems you have asked to hear, many of which are read by the poets themselves. The readers are Bill Wallis and Susan Jameson | |||
| 20051002 | 20051008 | A programme of poetry about the natural world, including some of the winners of the BBC Wildlife Magazine poetry competition. Presented by Roger McGough with readings by Susan Jameson, Bill Wallis and the poets themselves. | |||
| 20051009 | 20051015 | The poetry of the sky and the stars, selected from listener's requests and presented by Roger Mcgough. The readers are Susan Jameson and Bill Wallis | |||
| 20051016 | 20051022 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry. Featured poets include Simon Armitage, UA Fanthorpe and Philip Larkin | |||
| 20051023 | 20051029 | Roger McGough presents another assorted selection of listeners' favourite poems, including work by Amy Lovell, Billy Collins and Colette Bryce. The readers are Daniel Hart and Noni Lewis. | |||
| 20051030 | 20051105 | Celebrating BBC's Shakespeare season, Roger Mcgough has requests for verse by the Bard, including sonnets and excerpts from plays. Readings by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter | |||
| 20051106 | 20051112 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems by, among others, Edward Thomas and Elizabeth Jennings. The readers are Kate Littlewood and Bill Wallis. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems by, among others, Edward Thomas and Elizabeth Jennings. The readers are Kate Littlewood and Bill Wallis. [Rpt of Sun 4.30pm] | |||
| 20051113 | 20051119, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems linked by 'remembering the past', and those who have been affected by conflict. Poets featured are Wilfred Owen, Emily Brontë and Andrew Motion. The readers are Kate Littlewood and Bill Wallis. | |||
| Birds | 20060101 | 20060107 | Roger McGough features listeners' requests for poetry about birds, including Thomas Hardy's The Darkling Thrush and George Meredith's The Lark Ascending. | ||
| 20060108 | 20060114 | Roger Mcgough features listeners' requests for haunting poetry, including Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Walter de la Mare's The Listeners. | |||
| 20060115 | 20060121 | Roger Mcgough features listeners' requests. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. Trevor Peacock reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic story of a nightmare voyage as told by the ancient mariner, whose killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brings misfortune on the ship and all its crew. | |||
| 20060122 | 20060128 | An edition devoted to romantic poets, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats | |||
| 20060129 | 20060204 | Roger Mcgough features listeners' requests for poetry on the theme of family dynamics, including pieces by Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead and Patrick Kavanagh. | |||
| 20060205 | 20060211, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger Mcgough presents another edition of listeners' favourite poems. In this edition, he looks at the human desire to make our mark. Readers are Catherine Harvey, John Mackay and Fiona Shaw. | |||
| 20060212 | 20060218 | Roger Mcgough with listeners' requests for poetry. Featured poets include Eilean Nu Chuilleanain, Michael Longley, John Stallworthy and Sylvia Plath. Read by Fiona Shaw, Catherine Harvey and John Mackay | |||
| William Barnes | 20060219 | 20060225 | Roger McGough celebrates the work of Dorset dialect poet William Barnes. Readers are Alan Chedzoy, Ray Sargent and Devina Symes. [Rpt of Sun 4.30pm] Roger McGough celebrates the work of Dorset dialect poet William Barnes. Readers are Alan Chedzoy, Ray Sargent and Devina Symes. | ||
| 20060507 | 20060513 | Roger Mcgough features listeners' requests. The readers are Sean Barrett, Elizabeth Bell and Jim Findley | |||
| 20060514 | 20060520 | On his travels, Roger Mcgough arrives at some interesting poetry destinations in the company of William Cowper, Robert Browning and CP Cavafy | |||
| 20060521 | 20060527 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poems, including work by Stevie Smith, Tobias Hill and R S Thomas. | |||
| 20060528 | 20060603, RptofSun4.30pm, RptdSat11.30pm | A selection of poems about the cinema, poems that use movies as metaphor and poems that celebrate our love of the stars of the silver screen. Including offerings from Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy and a new poem by presenter Roger Mcgough. The readers are Adjoah Andoh, Demetri Goritsas and Patrick Romer. | |||
| 20060604 | 20060610 | Roger McGough introduces a broad selection of poems, many of which celebrate dialect and accents, including verse by Tony Harrison, Jackie Kay and Miss Lou. There are also poems about the joy of school days, as well as a smattering of love poems. The readers are Adjoah Andoh, Valerie Bloom, Lewis Rae and Patrick Romer. | |||
| Walter De La Mare | 20060611 | 20060617 | A celebration of a poet Walter de la Mare, who died 50 years ago this month. Roger Mcgough presents a wide selection of listeners' requests for his work and talks to contemporary poet Matthew Sweeney about de la Mare's special gifts. The readers are Jonathan Gunning and Kate Littlewood | ||
| 20060618 | 20060624 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry inspired by the ocean. | |||
| 20060625 | 20060701 | Catherine Harvey reads John Keats's Isabella or the Pot of Basil, a tale of passionate love, betrayal and gory horticulture. | |||
| 20060702 | 20060708 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of verse inspired by summer, including poems by William Shakespeare, Phillip Larkin and Ros Barber. | |||
| 20060709 | 20060715, RptofSun4.30pm | Rupert and Taatamata | |||
| John Betjeman | 20060827 | 20060902 | Roger McGough celebrates the poetry of Sir John Betjeman, with readings by Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Samuel West | ||
| 20061001 | 20061007 | Roger Mcgough has your requests for favourite nature poems, read by Andrew Sachs, Jenny Coverack and Philip Franks. | |||
| 20061008 | 20061014 | Live performances of favourite poems, many with a Midlands flavour, as Roger Mcgough and guests entertain an audience at the Birmingham Book Festival. The readers are Mike Fenton-Stevens and Phyllida Nash, with guest poets Martin Glynn and Julie Boden. | |||
| 20061015 | 20061021 | Roger Mcgough presents requests from Birmingham's Book Festival, performed by Phyllida Nash, Michael Fenton Stevens and guest poets Julie Boden and Martin Glyn. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] | |||
| 20061021 | 20061028 | Roger Mcgough presents poems with a seasonal flavour, including Rich Days, The Burning of the Leaves and October Dusk. Readers are Jenny Coverack, Philip Franks and Andrew Sachs Roger Mcgough presents listeners' requests from the Birmingham Book Festival. Readers are Phyllida Nash, Michael Fenton Stevens and guest poets Julie Boden and Martin Glyn [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] | |||
| 20061022 | 20061028 | Roger Mcgough presents poems with a seasonal flavour, including Rich Days, The Burning of the Leaves and October Dusk. Readers are Jenny Coverack, Philip Franks and Andrew Sachs Roger Mcgough presents listeners' requests from the Birmingham Book Festival. Readers are Phyllida Nash, Michael Fenton Stevens and guest poets Julie Boden and Martin Glyn. | |||
| Lullabies | 20061029 | 20061104 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of soothing, scary and musical poems in the form of lullabies. With readers Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham. | ||
| 20061105 | 20061111 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of listeners' requests exploring the complexities of relationships. Featured authors include RS Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy and DH Lawrence. Readers are Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Robert Wickham. | |||
| 20061112 | 20061118 | Roger Mcgough presents poems for remembrance, featuring works by Pablo Neruda, Evangeline Patterson and frontline poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Alun Lewis. Readers are Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham. Listeners may request a favourite poem by calling 08700 100 400, emailing poetry.please@bbc.co.uk or writing to Poetry Please, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR. | |||
| 20061231 | 20070106 | Roger Mcgough welcomes in the New Year with poems about hope, regret, sunrise and time. Featured poets include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robin Robertson, David Constantine, UA Fanthorpe and Robert Frost. The readers are Patrick Romer, Tom Lawrence and Kate Littlewood | |||
| 20070107 | 20070113, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger Mcgough presents a cornucopia of love and dreams, with poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and James Fenton. The readers are Jim Findley, Rupert Wickham, Adjoa Andoh and Kerry Shale. | |||
| 20070114 | 20070120 | Roger Mcgough introduces poems with a political flavour from Maya Angelou, Derek Mahon, Nick Drake and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Politicians pick out their favourites and the readers are Adjoa Andoh, Jonjo O'Neill, Jim Findley, Kerry Shale and Rupert Wickham. | |||
| 20070121 | 20070127 | Roger Mcgough introduces a selection of wintry poems and thoughts about the right way to live - from Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, Ted Hughes and Norman MacCaig's longest poem in its entirety, 'Man in Assynt'. The readers are Rupert Wickham, Jim Findley and Kerry Shale | |||
| 20070128 | 20070203, RptofSun4.30pm | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of poems. | |||
| 20070204 | 20070210 | Roger Mcgough truffles through the extraordinarily rich poetry collection held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Requests for works by John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Hardy, Larkin and others are read by Jamie Glover and Claire Skinner | |||
| 20070211 | 20070217 | Roger Mcgough visits the Bodleian Library in Oxford for an edition that focuses on requests for the work of two of the greatest Romantics, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley. The readers are Jamie Glover and Claire Skinner | |||
| W H Auden | 20070218 | 20070224 | Marking the centenary of arguably the most important poet of the 20th century in the English language after TS Eliot, Roger Mcgough introduces requests for works by W H Auden. The reader is Douglas Hodge | ||
| 20070401 | 20070407 | Roger Mcgough introduces a collection of comic poems requested by listeners, including classic archive recordings of John Betjeman and Stanley Holloway along with pieces by Roald Dahl, Wendy Cope and Ogden Nash. The reader is Trevor Peacock. | |||
| 20070408 | 20070414 | Roger Mcgough celebrates the arrival of spring with poems by Walt Whitman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Ted Hughes. Readers are Adjoa Andoh, Cian Murchu and Trevor Peacock | |||
| 20070415 | 20070421 | Roger Mcgough introduces poems about writing poetry and being a poet, including works by Emily Bronte, Sophie Hannah and RS Thomas. Readers are Adjoa Andoh, Cian Murchu and Trevor Peacock | |||
| 20070422 | 20070428 | Roger Mcgough presents poetry requested by listeners. Brian Pettifer, Richard McCabe and Eleanor Tremain read poems by Edward Thomas, John Clare and Christina Rossetti. Kathleen Jamie reads her own work. | |||
| 20070429 | 20070505 | Roger Mcgough presents an anthology of poems requested by listeners. Brian Pettifer, Richard McCabe and Eleanor Tremain read poems by Edwin Morgan, Philip Larkin and Emily Bronte, while poet Andrew McNeillie reads his own work. | |||
| Beppo | 20070506 | 20070512 | Roger Mcgough introduces Lord Byron's playful satire Beppo. Set in Venice, where Byron was living in 1818, this romp parodies English and Italian attitudes towards marital infidelity. It shows Byron perfecting a new poetic form, juxtaposing the lofty with the absurd and the pretentious with the trivial. The reader is John Telfer | ||
| 20070513 | 20070519, RptofSun4.30pm | Marking the 40th anniversary of the death of former Poet Laureate John Masefield, Roger Mcgough introduces requests for works with a nautical tang, including a poem by Andrew Motion about a merman once caught off the Suffolk coast at Orford Ness. Readers are Daniel Hart, Bonnie Hurren and Iain Mitchell. | |||
| 20070520 | 20070526 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points. Featured writers include Thom Gunn, Kahlil Gibran and Helen Dunmore. Readers are Amanda Horlock, Iain Mitchell and Duncan Bonner. | |||
| 20070527 | 20070602 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for works with a Welsh connection. Featured poets include Wordsworth, Gillian Clarke, Dylan Thomas and W H Davies. Readers are Richard Mitchley, Noni Lewis and Daniel Hart. | |||
| 20070708 | 20070714, RptofSun4.30pm | Roger McGough presents a selection of poems requested by listeners. Featured works include John Gay's Trivia, AK Ramanujan's Small Scale Reflections on a Great House, Tony Connor's On the Cliff, John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and Wallace Stevens' Anecdote of the Jar. Readers are John Telfer and Hayley Doherty. | |||
| 20070715 | 20070721, RptofSun4.30pm, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger McGough hosts the programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk. Performers include Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon. Readers are John Lightbody and Eleanor Tremain. | |||
| 20070722 | 20070728 | Roger McGough hosts a second programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk. Performers include Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon. Readers are John Lightbody and Eleanor Tremain. | |||
| 20070729 | 20070804 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of listeners' requests. Stephen Rea and Fiona Shaw read poems by Irish authors, from WB Yeats to Seamus Heaney | |||
| 20070805 | 20070811 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, read by Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson | |||
| 20070812 | 20070818 | Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, read by Susan Jameson, Tom Lawrence, Peter Marinker, Jenny Coverack and Phyllida Nash. | |||
| 20070819 | 20070825 | Roger McGough presents poems which use as imagery the sea, trees and autumn fruits. The theme of summer food leads to a delightful piece about an end-of-school picnic which hints at grown-up pleasures to come. Readers are Phyllida Nash, Jenny Coverack, Tom Lawrence and Peter Marinker. | |||
| 20071118 | 20071124 | Roger McGough celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake with a selection of his most popular verse, read by Samuel West, Janet Suzman and David Collins. | |||
| 20080113 | 20080119 | Roger Mcgough presents a selection of wildlife poetry including DH Lawrence's famous encounter with a Snake, Elizabeth Bishop's observations of The Fish and Edwin Morgan's satirical poem about our responses to noisy neighbours in The Starlings in George Square. Readers are John Mackay and Bonnie Hurren. Also featured are two of the winners from the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poetry Competition. | |||
| 20080120 | 20080126 | Roger Mcgough presents an eclectic selection of poetry including Kipling's The Way through the Woods and Muriel Spark's That Lonely Shoe on the Road. Other features writers include Anne Sexton, David Holbrook, Brendan Keneally, Sidney Smith and Thomas Hood. Readers are John Mackay and Bonnie Hurren | |||
| 20080127 | 20080202 | Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, from Yevtushenko to Yeats, read by actors including Stephen Rea, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield and Ronald Pickup. Felix Dennis reads one of his own poems, as does Roger himself. | |||
| 20080203 | 20080209 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry by husband and wife Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Readers are Gabriel Woolf and Rosalind Shanks. | |||
| 20080210 | 20080216, RptofSun4.30pm, RptdSat11.30pm | Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that take a wry look at love and relationships. Featured poets include Wendy Cope and RS Thomas. Readers are Mark Meadows, Kate Littlewood and Gabriel Woolf. | |||
| 20080217 | 20080223 | Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by writers perhaps better known as novelists, such as DH Lawrence, Muriel Spark, Robert Graves and Dermot Bolger. Readers are John Mackay and Bonnie Hurren. Also featured is rare archive of the Welsh poet WH Davies introducing and reading his poem Leisure. | |||
| 20080518 | 20080524 | Roger McGough revisits some of the beautiful readings recorded for Poetry Please by the actor Paul Scofield, who died in March. Juliet Stevenson joined him in 1998 to read a wide selection of verse for the programme, including work by WH Auden, Walter de la Mare, Sylvia Plath, sonnets from Shakespeare, Chinese lyrics translated by Helen Waddell and a cheering poem by Gavin Ewart about loving the wrong kind of people. | |||
| 20080525 | 20080531 | Roger Mcgough introduces the poetry magazine. Featured works include Carol Ann Duffy's Elvis's Twin Sister, which imagines a sibling for Elvis Presley as a nun, rocking in her wimple, and poems by Anna Akhmatova, Peter Porter and Douglas Dunn. Patrick Romer and Eva Bryer are the readers. | |||
| 20080601 | 20080607 | Roger McGough introduces a special edition, recorded at The Hay Festival. Listeners' requests are read by Richard Mitchley and Manon Edwards. Special guest is poet Gwyneth Lewis. Roger McGough introduces a special edition of the poetry magazine, recorded at The Hay Festival and featuring poetry from both sides of the Welsh border. Listeners' requests are read by Richard Mitchley and Manon Edwards. Special guest is poet Gwyneth Lewis. | |||
| 20080608 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests, including poems about parenting and friendship. Readers are Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Smart and William Hope | ||||
| 20080614 | 20080615 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests, including poems about parenting and friendship. Readers are Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Smart and William Hope | |||
| 20080621 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including a short interview with poet Mimi Khalvati. Readers are Mark Meadows, Rebecca Smart and William Hope. | ||||
| 20080622 | 20080628 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests, with guest Fleur Adcock. The readers are Rebecca Smart and Mark Meadows | |||
| 20080629 | 20080705 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems with a distinctly Gothic and funereal flavour, including Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Readers are Patrick Romer and Noni Lewis. | |||
| 20080706 | 20080712 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for the work of Alexander Pope. Renowned for his biting satire, other aspects of his personality are revealed in the narrative love poem Eloisa to Abelard. The readers are Christian Rodska and Noni Lewis. | |||
| 20080713 | 20080719 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for some classic ballads, including the sorry tale of Sir Patrick Spens. Readers include Jimmy Yuill and Lesley Stone. | |||
| 20080720 | 20080726 | Roger Mcgough presents a special programme, live from the Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Featured poets include Wendy Cope, Michael Longley, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Hamilton and James Tate. Readers are Eleanor Tremain and John Lightbody | |||
| 20080914 | 20080920 | Poetry that spans the ages features in the first of a new series of the requests programme presented by Roger Mcgough, with verse by the 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu, William Makepeace Thackeray, ee cummings and Polly Clark, to name just a few. | |||
| Robert W Service | 20080921 | 20080927 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' poetry requests. He marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Robert W Service, nicknamed the Canadian Kipling, one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. Many of his works commemorated the hardships and drama of the Yukon Gold Rush. Jimmy Yuill reads such classics as The Shooting of Dan McGrew. | ||
| Christina Rossetti | 20080928 | 20081004 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests for the works of Christina Rossetti, the Victorian poet whose reputation has grown steadily in recent years. Tessa Nicholson reads such classics as the haunting narrative poem Goblin Market. | ||
| 20081005 | 20081011 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. Including verse by Patrick Kavanagh, John Keats, Alan Ahlberg and Louis Simpson. The readers are Richard McCabe, Brigid Zengeni and Jonjo O'Neill. | |||
| 20081012 | 20081018 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. Including an autumnal love poem by Gillian Clarke, verses about sleep and waking by Keats and Robert Frost, and a Poetry Please favourite concerning a cat, courtesy of Harold Monro. Also, Pablo Neruda's friend and translator Alastair Reid introduces two of Neruda's poems as well as his own poem about a man who compulsively shades in the Os in library books. The readers are Brigid Zengeni, Richard McCabe and Jonjo O'Neill. | |||
| 20081019 | 20081025 | In an edition recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Roger Mcgough is joined on stage by actors Pippa Haywood and Bill Hope to read funny poems about poetry readings, mathematics, oranges and cats. | |||
| 20081026 | 20081101 | Roger Mcgough introduces a variety of poems that celebrate the natural world, including work by Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, DH Lawrence and Elizabeth Jennings. Plus some of the winning entries from this year's BBC Wildlife Magazine poetry competition. The readers are Brigid Zenghi and Richard McCabe | |||
| 20090111 | 20090117 | Including poems from Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Carol Ann Duffy and William Blake. Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. Actress Lia Williams reads poems from Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Patten, William Blake, Matthew Arnold and Harold Pinter. Plus recordings of Michael Williams reading Cecil Day Lewis's The Album and Felix Dennis reads some of his own atmospheric work. | |||
| 20090118 | 20090124 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. Actress Lindsay Duncan reads Keats's erotic and magical poem The Eve of St Agnes. Actress Lindsay Duncan reads Keats's erotic and magical poem The Eve of St Agnes. | |||
| 20090125 | 20090131 | Presented by Roger Mcgough. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, John Mackay reads some of his greatest poems, as requested by listeners. Lia Williams reads other listeners' requests, including poems by ASJ Tessimond, Liz Lochhead and Lotte Kramer. John Mackay reads poems by Robert Burns to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth. | |||
| 20090201 | 20090207 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Emily Bronte, Sheenagh Pugh and Linton Kwesi Johnson. With readers Nadia Williams, Burt Caesar and Adjoa Andoh. Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. | |||
| 20090208 | 20090214 | In the lead up to Valentine's Day, Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests for poems on the subject of love. Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Adjoa Andoh read poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Sophie Hannah and WH Auden. Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests for poems on the subject of love. | |||
| 20090215 | 20090221 | Roger Mcgough introduces a selection of poems by the late Adrian Mitchell, chosen and read by some of his friends and fellow poets. Roger Mcgough introduces a selection of poems by the late Adrian Mitchell | |||
| 20090222 | 20090228 | Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests. | |||
| 20090301 | 20090307 | Roger Mcgough introduces poems by Ernest Dowson, DH Lawrence, Laurie Lee and popular contemporary poet UA Fanthorpe. Roger Mcgough introduces poems by Ernest Dowson, DH Lawrence, Laurie Lee and UA Fanthorpe. | |||
| 20090308 | 20090314 | Roger Mcgough celebrates the work of Vernon Scannell and Stevie Smith, and looks forward to spring in a selection of listeners' requests including the work of MR Peacocke, a keen observer of the natural world. Roger Mcgough introduces listeners' requests and looks forward to spring. | |||
| 20090517 | 20090523 | Roger Mcgough introduces poems by AE Housman and Walt Whitman, including from A Shropshire Lad and O Captain, My Captain. The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Peter Marinker. Roger Mcgough introduces poems by AE Housman and Walt Whitman | |||
| 20090524 | 20090530 | Roger Mcgough introduces a reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, read by Finbar Lynch. Featuring a reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. | |||
| 20090531 | 20090606 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems by Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. Read by Peter Marinker and Philip Franks. Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems by Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. | |||
| 20090607 | 20090613 | Roger Mcgough presents a programme dedicated to the poetry of the Old Testament Book of Psalms, in old translations and new, read by Kenneth Cranham and Henry Goodman. Roger Mcgough presents a programme dedicated to the poetry of the Book of Psalms. | |||
| 20090614 | 20090620 | Carol Ann Duffy and others pay tribute to the poet UA Fanthorpe, who died recently. Describing herself as a 'middle-aged dropout', Fanthorpe only began writing at 50. Carol Ann Duffy and others pay tribute to the poet UA Fanthorpe, who died recently. | |||
| 20090621 | 20090627 | Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of its author and the 150th anniversary of its publication, a celebration of Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Gabriel Woolf reads what has been called 'the most popular verse translation into English ever made'. Gabriel Woolf reads Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 poem The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. | |||
| 20090712 | 20090718 | Roger Mcgough introduces poems including works by Milton, Ben Okri and Mary Oliver. | |||
| 20090719 | 20090725 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems about space by Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney and others. Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems about space. | |||
| 20090726 | 20090801 | Listeners' requests for poems lead Roger Mcgough to swim with seals in icy waters, recall the wives of Thomas Hardy and contemplate life and death while talking about a tea tray. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert Wickham. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert Wickham. | |||
| 20090809 | 20090815 | Roger Mcgough presents a special edition devoted to the poetry of Tennyson, as part of the poet's bicentenary celebrations. Tennyson is one of the most frequently requested 19th-century poets on the programme, and this edition features readings of his works including The Lady of Shallot, The Throstle and Crossing the Bar. | |||
| 20090913 | 20090919 | Roger Mcgough presents requests for much-loved poems that contrast the joy of living with the experience of memory loss. Roger Mcgough presents poems about the joy of living and the experience of memory loss. | |||
| 20090920 | 20090926 | Roger Mcgough presents listeners' requests for works with an environmental theme, including Alan Brownjohn's deceptively simple, unsettling poem from the 1960s, We Are Going to See the Rabbit, and two of Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow poems, written in response to the BSE crisis. Roger Mcgough presents listeners' requests for works with an environmental theme. | |||
| 20090927 | 20091003 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for Lewis Carroll's surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark, told not in verses but in eight distinctive 'fits'. Includes archive recordings by Ken Campbell and Alec Guinness. Roger Mcgough introduces Lewis Carroll's surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark. | |||
| 20091004 | 20091010 | Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems that chime with the theme of 2009's National Poetry Day, that of heroes and heroines. Including works by poets as varied as Maya Angelou and Rudyard Kipling. Roger Mcgough introduces requests for poems on the theme of heroes and heroines. | |||
| 20091011 | 20091017 | Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday from the Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces a selection of the most frequently-requested poems from the past 30 years. The special guest readers, including Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick Malahide, all have a strong connection with the city. Including poems by Keats, Hardy, Betjeman, Wendy Cope and Carol Ann Duffy. Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday from Bristol Old Vic. | |||
| 20091018 | 20091024 | A second programme celebrating the 30th birthday of Poetry Please in the show's home town of Bristol. Roger McGough is joined at Bristol Old Vic by special guest readers, including Stephanie Cole and Patrick Malahide, for some of the best-loved poems in its history. A second programme celebrating 30 years of Poetry Please, recorded at Bristol Old Vic. | |||
| Snow And Solitude | 20091025 | 20091031 | Roger McGough introduces poems about snow and solitude. There are splashes of colour too, with Goulash by Myra Schneider and Poppies by Carole Satymurti. The readers are Mark Meadows, Tanya Moodie and Osi Okerafor. | ||
| 20100131 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including Stevie Smith's galloping cat and Les Murray's poem defining the quintessentially Australian quality of 'sprawl'. Plus a whirling drunken evening with Tony Harrison and a recollection of high summer from Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves. With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. Including poems by Stevie Smith, Les Murray, Tony Harrison, Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves | ||||
| 31/01/2010 | 20100206 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including Stevie Smith's galloping cat and Les Murray's poem defining the quintessentially Australian quality of 'sprawl'. Plus a whirling drunken evening with Tony Harrison and a recollection of high summer from Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves. With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. Including poems by Stevie Smith, Les Murray, Tony Harrison, Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves | |||
| 20100207 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. He guides us through a poetic landscape cast in frost, with requested poems by Ted Hughes, William Morris and Raymond Carver. There's also a tender poem about fatherhood and language from the 2008 Forward Prize-winning poet Mick Imlah. With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. Roger McGough guides us through a poetic landscape cast in frost. | ||||
| 07/02/2010 | 20100213 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. He guides us through a poetic landscape cast in frost, with requested poems by Ted Hughes, William Morris and Raymond Carver. There's also a tender poem about fatherhood and language from the 2008 Forward Prize-winning poet Mick Imlah. With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. Roger McGough guides us through a poetic landscape cast in frost. | |||
| 20100214 | Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for Valentine's Day, with love on the menu but no straightforward hearts and flowers. Including poems on extraordinary manifestations of love by Edson Burton, Anne Sexton and John Updike, and poet Jenny Joseph reads from her new collection, Nothing Like Love. Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for Valentine's Day. | ||||
| 14/02/2010 | 20100220 | Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for Valentine's Day, with love on the menu but no straightforward hearts and flowers. Including poems on extraordinary manifestations of love by Edson Burton, Anne Sexton and John Updike, and poet Jenny Joseph reads from her new collection, Nothing Like Love. Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for Valentine's Day. | |||
| 20100221 | 20100227 | Roger McGough is joined by poet Tony Harrison for a new reading of Newcastle is Peru. Roger McGough is joined by poet Tony Harrison for a new reading of Newcastle is Peru, and introduces poems by Frances Horowitz and the winner of the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition, Heather Reid. | |||
| 20100228 | 20100306 | Roger McGough introduces poems including An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells. Roger McGough introduces requests for poems including An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells, in which a confused boy struggles to master a maelstrom of famous first lines. The readers are Kate Littlewood, Jon Strickland, Bonnie Hurren and Zahra Barri. class="blq-clearfix"> | |||
| 20100307 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. class="blq-clearfix"> | ||||
| 07/03/2010 | 20100313 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. | |||
| 20100314 | Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, read by Henry Goodman and Selina Cadell. | ||||
| LAST | 20070826 | 20070901 | Roger Mcgough presents poems on themes reflecting the end of the summer such as enjoying the garden, working the land and preparing for the inevitable return to school. He also looks at a collection of artwork drawn especially for him by a class of primary school pupils who were inspired by one of his own poems. | ||
| LAST | The Open Road | 20040613 | 20040619 | In the last of the current series of poetry please before the summer holidays, Roger McGough presents requests for poems that celebrate travel and the allure of life on the open road. Among the poets represented are John Masefield, Thom Gunn and Seamus Heaney. The readers are Bonnie Hurren, David Collins And Alice Arnold. | |
| SP | Wole Soyinka | 20040404 | 20040410 | Roger McGough introduces a special edition of the programme in which the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and dramatist, Wole Soyinka reads some of his poetry. |