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A Map of British Poetry
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Sundays 16:30-17:00 |
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A personal journey around the landscapes of British poetry |
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Off The Map |
Sunday 8th May 4.30-5.00pm |
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 Programme12:
Off The Map |
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About the programme
What have we missed out? Love poems, hate poems; poems of god and of war. And what do our listeners think we have missed. From Sir Gawain as he was first described to Simon Armitage's new retelling of the story.
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Readers: Iain Glen, Jamie Glover, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Russell Beale,
Juliet Stevenson.
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Poems
'Home Thoughts from the Sea' - Robert Browning read by Simon Russell Beale.
Taken from 'Browning - Poems selected by W.E Williams' published by Penguin.
from 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - written and read by Simon Armitage. Taken from 'wild reckoning', published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
'To Meddowes' by Robert Herrick, read by Iain Glen. Taken from 'The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse' published by Oxford.
'Is my team ploughing' by A.E Housman, read by Pete Postlethwaite. Taken from 'The Collected Poems of A.E Housman, published by Jonathan Cape.
'Break of day in the trenches' by Isaac Rosenberg read by Andrew Motion. Taken from 'The Oxford Book of War Poetry' published by Oxford University Press.
'Since there's no help' by Michael Drayton read by P.J. Kavanagh. Taken from 'The New Penguin Book of English Verse'.
'Welsh Landscape' by RS Thomas read by Dannie Abse. Taken from 'R.S. Thomas - Poems', published by Phoenix.
'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare, read by Jamie Glover. Taken from 'Poems 1902-1918 by Walter de la Mare' published by Constable and Company Limited.
'On the Embankment' written and read by Jenny Joseph. Taken from 'Jenny Joseph, Selected Poems' published by Bloodaxe.
'The Manor Farm' by Edward Thomas, read by Simon Russell Beale. Taken from 'The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas' published by Oxford University Press.
from 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - written and read by Simon Armitage. Taken from 'wild reckoning', published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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