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Last broadcast on Sat, 10 Oct 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
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.
BBC Poetry Season
Find out about National Poetry Day events on the BBC Poetry Season website.
Poems featured in this programme
Useful Person by Kit Wright
From: Hot Dog and Other Poems
Published by Puffin
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
From: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Published by Random House
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great by Stephen Spender
From: Stephen Spender Collected Poems 1928-1985
Published by Faber & Faber
Bendy’s Sermon by Arthur Conan Doyle
From: Songs of the Road
Published by Kessinger Publishing
Audenesque by Seamus Heaney
From: Electric Light
Published by Faber & Faber
Everyone Suddenly Burst Out Singing by Siegfried Sassoon
From: Siegfried Sassoon, Collected Poems 1908-1956
Published by Faber & Faber
Broadcasts
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Sun 4 Oct 200916:30
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Sat 10 Oct 200923:30
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