Poetry Please Episodes Episode guide
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Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry.
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Irish Authors
Stephen Rea and Fiona Shaw read poems by Irish authors, from W B Yeats to Seamus Heaney.
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Episode 2
Roger McGough hosts the programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk.
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Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon
Roger McGough hosts the programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk.
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John Gay, Tony Connor, Keats
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems requested by listeners.
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Poetry Please
Roger McGough introduces requests for works with a Welsh connection.
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27/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces requests for works with a Welsh connection.
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26/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points.
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20/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points.
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Poetry Please
Roger McGough introduces requests for works with a nautical tang.
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13/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces requests for works with a nautical tang.
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12/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces Lord Byron's playful satire Beppo. The reader is John Telfer.
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06/05/2007
Roger McGough introduces Lord Byron's playful satire Beppo. The reader is John Telfer.
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Poetry Please
Roger McGough features poetry by Brian Pettifer, Richard McCabe and Eleanor Tremain.
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29/04/2007
Roger McGough features poetry by Brian Pettifer, Richard McCabe and Eleanor Tremain.
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Poetry Please
Roger McGough features poetry by Edward Thomas, John Clare and Christina Rossetti.
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22/04/2007
Roger McGough features poetry by Edward Thomas, John Clare and Christina Rossetti.
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15/04/2007
Roger McGough introduces poems about writing poetry and being a poet.
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08/04/2007
Roger McGough introduces poems by Walt Whitman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Ted Hughes
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01/04/2007
Roger McGough introduces a collection of comic poems requested by listeners.
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18/02/2007
Roger McGough introduces works by WH Auden, read by Douglas Hodge.
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11/02/2007
Roger McGough visits the Bodleian Library to look at the works of Percy and Mary Shelley.
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Bodleian Library
Roger McGough looks at the rich poetry collection held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
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28/01/2007
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems.
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Garden Poems 2
Gardening requests with readers Carole Boyd and John Rowe.