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Last broadcast on Sat, 24 Oct 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
A second programme celebrating the 30th birthday of Poetry Please in the show's home town of Bristol. Roger McGough is joined at Bristol Old Vic by special guest readers, including Stephanie Cole and Patrick Malahide, for some of the best-loved poems in its history.
Poems featured in this programme
The Glory of the Garden
by Rudyard Kipling
From: Rudyard Kipling’s Verse
Pub: Hodder and Stoughton
The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden
by Po Chu-i
Translated by Arthur Waley
From: Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley
Pub: Unwin
Twelve Songs
by WH Auden
From: WH Auden Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
Pub: Faber
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
by Anon
From: Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times
Pub: Bloodaxe
Remember
by Christina Rossetti
From: Christina Rossetti, Poems and Prose
Pub: Everyman
Snake
by D H Lawrence
From: The Love Poems of DH Lawrence
Pub: Kyle Cathie Limited
Cinders
by Roger McGough
From: Roger McGough Collected Poems
Pub: Penguin
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by WB Yeats
From: The Collected Poems of WB Yeats
Pub: Palgrave
Sonnet 18
by Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare
Pub: Penguin
Timothy Winters
by Charles Causley
From: Charles Causley Collected Poems
Pub: Macmillan
Limericks
by Edward Lear
From: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
Pub: Penguin
Love Is
by Adrian Henri
From: Adrian Henri Collected Poems 1967-85
Pub: Allison and Busby
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
From: The New Dragon Book of Verse
Pub: Oxford University Press
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas
From: Dylan Thomas Collected Poems 1934-1952
Pub: JM Dent and Sons Ltd
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
From: Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times
Pub: Bloodaxe
Broadcasts
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Sun 18 Oct 200916:30
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Sat 24 Oct 200923:30
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