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18/05/2008

Roger McGough revisits some of the readings recorded for Poetry Please by the actor Paul Scofield, who died in March. Juliet Stevenson joined him in 1998 to read a wide selection.

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
From: The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare

Loving Unsuitable People by Gavin Ewart
From: Gavin Ewart – Selected Poems 1933-1993
Publ: Hutchinson

From: Lyrics from the Chinese translated by Helen Waddell
From: Chinese Lyrics
Publ: Constable

Down by the Salley Gardens by W.B. Yeats
From: Yeats, Poems
Publ: Everyman

In Memory of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber

Patterns by Amy Lowell (This poem is only featured in the Saturday night programme)
From: The Albatross Book of Living Verse
Publ: Houghton Mifflin Co

Memorabilia by Robert Browning (This poem is only featured in the Sunday afternoon programme)
From: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Volume 1
Publ: John Murray

The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber

Silver by Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare
Publ: faber

Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
From: W.H. Auden – Collected Poems
Publ: faber

Dirge From Cymbeline by Shakespeare
The Viking Portable Library - Shakespeare

26 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 May 2008 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 May 2008 16:30
  • Sat 24 May 2008 23:30