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Families

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests with a family theme. Including poems by Anna Akhmatova, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Sylvia Plath. With readers James Fleet and Amanda Root. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 26 Sep 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

Family Group

By Ken Smith

From You Again – Last Poems and Other Words

Published by Bloodaxe

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Stones on a Dorset Beach

By David Scott

From Playing for England

Published by Bloodaxe

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My Old Cat

By Hal Summers

From The Oxford Book of Death

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Road to Persia

By Kathryn Simmonds

From Sunday at the Skin Launderette

Published by Seren

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Parting

By Kathleen Raine

From The School Bag

Published by Faber and Faber

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Once

By Carol Rumens

From Poems: 1968-2004

Published by Bloodaxe

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Farewell

By Agha Shahid Ali

From The Veiled Suite – The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali

Published by W.W Norton & Company

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Dedication

From ‘Requiem’

By Anna Akhmatova

Translated by D.M Thomas

From You Will Hear Thunder – Akhmatova: Poems

Published by Secker & Warburg

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For My Daughter

By Jo Roach

From Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology

Published by Oxford Poets

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Cheap Moisturiser

By John Siddique

From The Prize

Published by The Rialto

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Never

By Jacob Sam-La Rose

From Breaking Silence

Published by Bloodaxe

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Daddy

By Sylvia Plath

Read by Sylvia Plath

From LP ‘The Poet Speaks’

Label: Argo (Decca)Ìý

PLP1085

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader James Fleet
Reader Amanda Root
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 20 Sep 2015 16:30
  • Sat 26 Sep 2015 23:30