Ian McMillan builds a collection of 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems, from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3.
Archive broadcast in which poet Charles Causley reads his work On Launceston Castle.
Archive recordings, with readings by poets Christopher Reid and Craig Raine.
A 1983 recording of Elizabeth Jennings reading her poems Thunder and a Boy and In a Garden
An archive broadcast from 1983 in which James Fenton reads his poem Prison Island.
Archive recordings from the 1980s in which Sean O'Brien and Mick Imlah read their poems.
Archive recording by Kamau Brathwaite, who reads his poems Calypso and The Emigrants.
Archive broadcasts from 1988 in which Wendy Cope reads three of her poems.