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  1. Seamus Heaney

    20/50 Seamus Heaney talks about and reads his poems Digging and The Ministry of Fear.

  2. Dannie Abse

    19/50 Archive broadcast from 1971 of Dannie Abse reading the first two parts of his poem Funland

  3. WH Auden

    18/50 Archive broadcast from 1972 of WH Auden reading his poems a Lullaby and Song of the Devil.

  4. Ted Hughes

    17/50 Archive broadcasts by Ted Hughes: part of The Captain's Speech and also The Mackerel Song.

  5. Vernon Scannell

    16/50 Archive broadcast in which Vernon Scannell reads his poems Dejection and A Case of Murder.

  6. Adrian Mitchell

    15/50 Archive broadcast, with Adrian Mitchell reading his poem Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off.

  7. Philip Larkin

    14/50 Archive broadcast of Philip Larkin reading his poem The Whitsun Weddings.

  8. Stevie Smith

    13/50 Archive broadcast from 1965 of Stevie Smith reading her poem Not Waving But Drowning.

  9. RS Thomas

    12/50 Archive broadcast from 1965 in which RS Thomas reads his poetry at the Edinburgh Festival.

  10. Sylvia Plath

    11/50 In an archive recording first broadcast in 1963, Sylvia Plath reads her poem Daddy.

  11. Walter de la Mare

    10/50 An archive broadcast: Walter de la Mare reads his poems England and the Little Salamander.

  12. Jenny Joseph, Edwin Muir

    9/50 Archive recordings from the late 1950s made by poets Jenny Joseph and Edwin Muir.

  13. John Betjeman, William Empson

    8/50 Archive recordings from 1958 made by poets John Betjeman and William Empson.

  14. Siegfried Sassoon

    7/50 A 1955 archive recording in which Siegfried Sassoon reads three of his own poems.

  15. Edmund Blunden

    6/50 Edmund Blunden reads his own poem Concert Party in an archive broadcast from 1957.

  16. Dylan Thomas

    5/50 A 1950 archive recording of Dylan Thomas reading his poem In the White Giant's Thigh.

  17. TS Eliot

    4/50 Archive recordings: TS Eliot reads The Journey of the Magi and part of The Four Quartets.

  18. Louis MacNeice

    3/50 A recording from 1949 in which Louis MacNeice reads his poems Snow and Prayer Before Birth

  19. Cecil Day-Lewis: An Italian Visit

    2/50 In a broadcast from 1949, Cecil Day-Lewis reads from his poem An Italian Visit.

  20. Dame Edith Sitwell

    1/50 Ian McMillan introduces poet Dame Edith Sitwell reading in an archive recording from 1947

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