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06/03/2011

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that may inspire and encourage the world's athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Roger McGough introduces requests for inspiring poems, including the result of the Winning Words project. This asked the British public to suggest lines that might encourage athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as future generations of Londoners. Find out which lines, nominated by the public and selected by a panel which included Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, will be engraved on the wall in the Athletes' Village in the Olympic Park. The programme includes some of Roger McGough's own poems on a sporting theme, taken from his collection 'Sporting Relations'.

Producer: Mark Smalley.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Mar 2011 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Mar 2011 16:30
  • Sat 12 Mar 2011 23:30