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Secrets

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests on the theme of secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name.

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests on the theme of Secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name. With poems by Seamus Heaney, Blake Morrison and G K Chesterton dealing with the subject, the programme features an interview with a poet; Don Paterson OBE and a priest; Father Christopher Hilton.
Readers are Pippa Haywood and Anton Lesser.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Jun 2017 23:30

This Week's Poems

Russian Doll

By Helen Dunmore

From Secrets

Published by Bodley Head Children鈥檚 Books, Random House

Heiss mich nicht redden / Bid me be silent

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Translated by AS Kleine

Taken from

Winter My Secret

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti - Poems and Prose

Published by Everyman

To The Secret Rose

By WB Yeats

Taken from

Punishment

By Seamus Heaney

From Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996

Published by Faber & Faber

Xerox

By Blake Morrison

From Volume 1 of Penguin Modern Poets

Published by Penguin

Extract from The Secret People

By GK Chesterton

From The Collected Poems of G K Chesterton

Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd

Confession

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Mean Time

Published by Picador

True Confessions

By Liz Lochhead

From True Confessions and New Cliches

Published by Polygon

The White Lie

By Don Paterson

From Landing Light

Published by Faber & Faber

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Pippa Haywood
Reader Anton Lesser
Producer Sarah Addezio

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Jun 2017 16:30
  • Sat 24 Jun 2017 23:30