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Nicholas Parsons
Broadcast Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) but not available on BBC iPlayer.
Nicholas Parsons chooses some of the pieces of writing which have moved and inspired him.
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The readings featured in this programme are:
from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Published by Macmillan Children’s Books
The Pobble Who Has No Toes by Edward Lear
From: The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
Published by Faber
from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Published by Vintage Classics
from Private Lives by Noel Coward
Published by Vintage
On Children by Kahlil Gibran
From: The Prophet
Published by Pan
Matilda, Who Told Lies and was burned to Death by Hilaire Belloc
From: Cautionary Verses
Published by Red Fox
from The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Published by Vintage Classics
from Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth
Published by John Murray
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
From: The Complete Poems of Robert Burns
Published by Wordsworth Poetry Library
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