Birmingham Literature Festival
Roger McGough presents a request edition on stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival as audience members pick their favourite poems.
Roger McGough presents an as-it-happens request edition on stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival as audience members pick their favourite poems. Will it be Not Waving but Drowning or The Way through the Woods, The Listeners or Timothy Winters, The Sunne Rising or Snake? The readers are Eleanor Tremain and Peter Marinker. Producer: Tim Dee.
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This Week's Poems
Timothy Winters
by Charles Causley
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Remember
by Christina Rossetti
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Adlestrop
by Edward Thomas
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Not Adlestrop
By Dannie Abse
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The Listeners
by Walter de la Mare
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To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell
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Ithaka
By C.P Cavafy
translated from the Greek by Edmund
Keeley & Philip Sherrard
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Tarantella
By Hilaire Belloc
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When You are Old
by WB Yeats
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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Everything taken from Poetry Please 鈥� The Nation鈥檚 Best Loved Poems, published by Faber apart from 鈥楴ot Adlestrop鈥� by Dannie Abse, taken from 鈥楶urple Coat, White Coat: Collected Poems鈥�, published by Hutchinson
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Eleanor Tremain |
| Reader | Peter Marinker |
| Producer | Tim Dee |
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Oct 2014 16:30大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 25 Oct 2014 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4