Poetry Please Episodes Episode guide
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The Brownings
Roger McGough with a special programme on Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Remember
Roger McGough with poetry requests on the theme of Remember.
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21/09/2014
Roger McGough presents a mixed bag of listeners' poetry requests, from Bronte to Larkin.
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07/09/2014
Roger McGough presents a mixed bag as requested by listeners.
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Yeats
Roger McGough presents a programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats.
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Stages of Life
Roger McGough presents poems which deal with some of the stages of life we go through.
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Poetry and Music
Roger McGough presents an LP of poems set to music.
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Earth and Air
Roger McGough returns to his element, with requests for poems about earth and air.
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Fire and Water
Roger McGough is in his element, presenting poems on the theme of fire and water.
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Poetry by Heart
Roger McGough presents poems recited from memory by school pupils.
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Live Audience Requests at Bristol Food Connections Festival
Roger McGough presents best-loved poems chosen by an audience at Bristol Food Connections.
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Food Glorious Food
Delicious poems introduced by Roger McGough from Bristol Food Connections Festival.
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Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew, Walter de la Mare
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems written one hundred years ago.
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Milosz and Dickinson
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz and Emily Dickinson.
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West African Poetry and Sinead Morrissey
Roger McGough presents the winner of the 2014 TS Eliot prize and poetry from West Africa.
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A dollop of nonsense and a hint of spring
Roger McGough presents poems that include a dollop of nonsense and a hint of spring.
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16/02/2014
Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners.
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Islands and High Seas
Poems on islands and high seas sail through this show, with Roger McGough at the helm.
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Dreams and Sleep
Roger McGough introduces poems about dreams and sleep.
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Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their own work
Roger McGough presents listeners' requests with poets reading their own work.
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Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Roger McGough presents Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, read by Shirley Henderson.
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Poetry Please Special: Edge
Edge - a journey through space in poetry by Katrina Porteous, music by Peter Zinovieff.
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From the Birmingham Literature Festival
Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests made by a live audience.
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Canals, rivers, boats and lakes
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme.
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Charles Causley Part 2
Roger McGough presents a second selection of requests for Charles Causley's poems.
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Charles Causley Anniversary
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems by Charles Causley.
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RS Thomas at 100
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for the poems of RS Thomas.
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Story Poems 2
Roger McGough presents some requested poems that tell a story.
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Story Poems 1
Roger McGough presents some requested poems that tell a story.
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Seamus Heaney
Roger McGough presents a selection of Seamus Heaney's poems read by the author himself.
