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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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Oct 2014 23:30

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 – The Nation’s Best Loved Poems, published by Faber apart from ‘Not Adlestrop’ by Dannie Abse, taken from ‘Purple Coat, White Coat: Collected Poems’, 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
  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 23:30