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Attila the Stockbroker's Mum

Roger McGough introduces listeners' poetry requests, ranging from Keats to Attila the Stockbroker. The readers are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero and Zeb Soanes.

Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including a moving poem by Attila the Stockbroker reflecting on his mother's rich life before Alzheimer's gradually robbed her of her memory.
The readers this week are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero, Attila the Stockbroker and Radio 4 announcer and poetry lover, Zeb Soanes.

Producer Christine Hall.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Jun 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

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Please Mrs Butler

by Allan Ahlberg

From Please Mrs Butler

Published by Puffin Books

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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

by William Wordsworth

From William Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber and Faber

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A Subaltern’s Love Song

by John Betjeman

From The Best of Betjeman

Published by Penguin

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On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters

by Oscar Wilde

From Oscar Wilde Selected Poems

Published by Fyfield Books

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Extract from Endymion

by John Keats

From Keats’s Poetry and Prose

Published by W.W Norton and Company

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To Night

by Joseph Blanco White

From Hispanic Anthology

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons

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The Long Goodbye by Attila the StockbrokerÌý

From Arguments Yard by Attila the Stockbroker

Published by Cherry Red Books

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Zeb Soanes and Roger McGough

Zeb Soanes and Roger McGough

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Simon Armstrong
Reader Rosie Cavaliero
Reader Attila the Stockbroker
Reader Zeb Soanes
Producer Christine Hall

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 Jun 2016 16:30
  • Sat 11 Jun 2016 23:30