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Last broadcast on Mon, 16 Nov 2009, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing.
Honor Blackman introduces a selection of the poetry and prose which has inspired her through her long acting career. The pieces are read by Eleanor David, Nickolas Grace and Honor herself.
Honor Blackman's choices
The speech of Queen Elizabeth I to her army encamped at Tilbury, 1588
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
Newsreel (poem) by C. Day Lewis
from The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Published by Virago Press
from The Way of the World (play) by Congreve
One Perfect Rose (poem) by Dorothy Parker
from The Penguin Dorothy Parker
Published by Penguin Books
Anthem for Doomed Youth (poem) by Wilfred Owen
from The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Published by Chatto & Windus
Speech by Oliver Cromwell to Parliament, 20th April 1653
Ninetieth Birthday (poem) by R.S. Thomas
from Phoenix Poetry: R.S. Thomas
Published by Phoenix Poetry
Reflections at Dawn (poem) by Phyllis McGinley
from Party Pieces edited by Anne Harvey
Published by The History Press
Rondeau (“Jenny Kissed Me”) by Leigh Hunt
from More Poetry Please
Published by J.M. Dent
Broadcasts
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Tue 28 Jul 200911:30
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Mon 16 Nov 200923:00
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