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Last broadcast on Sat, 26 Jun 2010, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Roger McGough presents some of the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, masterpieces all of compressed emotion. And to keep them company a selection from some other Seventeenth Century masters: John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughan.
Readers: Jasmine Hyde, Finbar Lynch & Paul Mundell.
Producer: Tim Dee.
Poems featured in this programme:
Sonnet 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 30, “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 113, “Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 114, “Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 109, “O never say that I was false of heart …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
The Sunne Rising
by John Donne
From: Donne – Everyman Library Pocket Poets
Pub: Everyman
To His Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
From: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Pub: Oxford University Press
The Marriage of Psyche
by Kathleen Raine
From: The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
Pub: Golgonooza Press
Sonnet 27, “Weary with toil I haste me to my bed …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 28, “How can I then return in happy plight …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 29, “When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 25, “Let those who are in favour with their stars …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Sonnet 94, “They that have power to hurt and will do none …”
by William Shakespeare
From: Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare and John Kerrigan
Pub: Penguin Classics
Cymbeline IV.2 (Fear no more the heat of the sun)
by William Shakespeare
From: The Oxford Cymbeline - Shakespeare
Pub: Oxford Paperbacks
Broadcasts
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Sun 20 Jun 201016:30
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Sat 26 Jun 201023:30
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