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Roger McGough presents a programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats. With Yeats's biographer Roy Foster, voices from the archive and some of Yeats's best-loved poems.

Roger McGough presents a special programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats. With Yeats' biographer Professor Roy Foster, voices from the archive including Seamus Heaney, Sinead Cusack and Steven Rea, and of course some of Yeats' best loved poetry. Poems requested by listeners and featured on the programme include He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and The Second Coming.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 6 Sep 2014 23:30

This Week's Poems

Song of the Old Mother

By W.B Yeats

From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats

Published by Macmillan

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Song of Wandering Aengus

By W.B Yeats

Taken from the CD ‘Now and In Time to Be’ by Christy Moore

Label: Grapevine Label

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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

By W. B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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The Host of the Air

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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Easter 1916

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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The Second Coming

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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Long-Legged Fly

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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The Wild Swans at Coole

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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Extract from Under Ben Bulben

By W.B Yeats

From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Interviewed Guest Roy Foster
Reader Seamus Heaney
Reader Sinead Cusack
Reader Stephen Rea

Broadcasts

  • Sun 31 Aug 2014 16:30
  • Sat 6 Sep 2014 23:30