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With Great Pleasure

Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, in which guest presenters pick readings from their favourite pieces of poetry and prose

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Nicholas Parsons

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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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