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11/10/2009

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Last broadcast on Sat, 17 Oct 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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.

Poems featured in this programme

To Autumn
by John Keats
From: John Keats Poems selected by Andrew Motion
Pub: Faber & Faber

The Ruined Maid
by Thomas Hardy
From: The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy
Pub: Oxford University Press

A Subaltern’s Love Song
by John Betjeman
From: John Betjeman Collected Poems
Pub: John Murray

Bloody Men
by Wendy Cope
From: Serious Concerns
Pub: Faber & Faber

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House
by Billy Collins
From: Sailing Alone Around the Room
Pub: Random House

Let me Die A Youngman’s Death
by Roger McGough
From: Blazing Fruit
Pub: Penguin

Warning
by Jenny Joseph
From: Jenny Joseph Selected Poems
Pub: Bloodaxe

The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
From: The Nation’s Favourite Poems
Pub: BBC

Cargoes
by John Masefield
From: The Collected Poems of John Masefield
Pub: William Heinemann Ltd

An Arundel Tomb
by Philip Larkin
From: Philip Larkin Collected Poems
Pub: Faber & Faber

Adlestrop
by Edward Thomas
From: Edward Thomas, The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917
Pub: Faber & Faber

Naming of Parts (From Lessons of the War)
by Henry Reed
From: The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Pub: Oxford University Press

The Red Wheelbarrow
by Willim Carlos Williams
From: William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems Vol 1 1909-1939
Pub: Carcanet

To Poetry Please
by Roger McGough
From: That Awkward Age
Pub: Penguin

Prayer
by Carol Ann Duffy
From: Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems
Pub: Penguin

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 11 Oct 2009
    16:30
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Sat 17 Oct 2009
    23:30
    BBC Radio 4

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