Poetry Please
Last Edited: 22-Mar-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.
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Date |
Title |
Cast |
Parameters |
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14-Sep-2008 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:53, 26146, S |
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21-Sep-2008 |
Robert W Service |
Roger McGough |
27:52, 26130, S |
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28-Sep-2008 |
Christina Rossetti |
Roger McGough |
27:50, 26100, S |
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05-Oct-2008 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:58, 26228, S |
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12-Oct-2008 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
28:05, 26329, S |
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19-Oct-2008 |
Funny Poems |
Roger McGough |
27:52, 26133, S |
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26-Oct-2008 |
poems that celebrate the natural world |
Roger McGough |
27:36, 25890, S |
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Cast |
Parameters |
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11-Jan-2009 |
1 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26201, S |
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18-Jan-2009 |
2 |
The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats |
Roger McGough |
27:19, 25621, S |
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25-Jan-2009 |
3 |
Robert Burns |
Roger McGough |
27:40, 25953, S |
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01-Feb-2009 |
4 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
28:04, 26320, S |
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08-Feb-2009 |
5 |
Love Poems |
Roger McGough |
27:36, 25883, S |
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15-Feb-2009 |
6 |
Poems by Adrian Mitchell |
Roger McGough |
27:51, 26125, S |
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22-Feb-2009 |
7 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:47, 26048, S |
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01-Mar-2009 |
8 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:23, 25685, S |
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08-Mar-2009 |
9 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:34, 25850, S |
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17-May-2009 |
1 |
AE Housman and Walt Whitman |
Roger McGough |
27:54, 26169, S |
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24-May-2009 |
2 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Roger McGough |
27:49, 26089, S |
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31-May-2009 |
3 |
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas |
Roger McGough |
27:54, 26162, S |
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07-Jun-2009 |
4 |
the Book of Psalms |
Roger McGough |
27:24, 25701, S |
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14-Jun-2009 |
5 |
UA Fanthorpe |
Roger McGough |
27:39, 25935, S |
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21-Jun-2009 |
6 |
Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 poem The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Roger McGough |
27:53, 26156, S |
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12-Jul-2009 |
1 |
poems including works by Milton, Ben Okri and Mary Oliver |
Roger McGough |
27:33, 25830, S |
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19-Jul-2009 |
2 |
poems about space |
Roger McGough |
28:02, 26296, S |
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26-Jul-2009 |
3 |
Listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
28:02, 26289, S |
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02-Aug-2009 |
No programmes |
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09-Aug-2009 |
4 |
Tennyson |
Roger McGough |
27:55, 26173, S |
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13-Sep-2009 |
1 |
the joy of living, the experience of memory loss |
Roger McGough |
27:24, 25699, S |
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20-Sep-2009 |
2 |
works with an environmental theme |
Roger McGough |
28:03, 26311, S |
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27-Sep-2009 |
3 |
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll |
Roger McGough |
27:57, 26220, S |
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04-Oct-2009 |
4 |
heroes and heroines |
Roger McGough |
27:33, 25836, S |
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11-Oct-2009 |
5 |
the programme's 30th birthday |
Roger McGough |
24:48, 23266, S |
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25-Oct-2009 |
6 |
about snow and solitude |
Roger McGough |
24:48, 23261, S |
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Cast |
Parameters |
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31-Jan-2010 |
1 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:49, 26086, S |
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07-Jan-2010 |
2 |
a poetic landscape cast in frost |
Roger McGough |
27:20, 25626, S |
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14-Feb-2010 |
3 |
Valentine's Day |
Roger McGough |
27:50, 26095, S |
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21-Feb-2010 |
4 |
Newcastle is Peru |
Roger McGough |
27:49, 26084, S |
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28-Feb-2010 |
5 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
28:04, 26324, S |
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07-Mar-2010 |
6 |
Basil Bunting |
Roger McGough |
28:02, 26291, S |
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14-Mar-2010 |
7 |
Listener Requests |
Roger McGough |
27:37, 25902, S |
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21-Mar-2010 |
8 |
American Poetry |
Roger McGough |
27:32, 25819, S |
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16-May-2010 |
1 |
poems learnt by heart while at school |
Roger McGough |
27:33, 25836, S |
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23-May-2010 |
2 |
TS Eliot's Four Quartets |
Roger McGough |
27:57, 26215, S |
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30-May-2010 |
3 |
Cambridge University Library |
Roger McGough |
27:59, 26238, S |
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06-Jun-2010 |
4 |
Siegfried Sassoon's war poems |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26200, S |
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13-Jun-2010 |
5 |
a seasonal selection of poetry requests |
Roger McGough |
27:30, 25786, S |
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20-Jun-2010 |
6 |
some of Shakespeare's sonnets and some other 17th-century masters |
Roger McGough |
26:50, 25172, S |
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04-Jul-2010 |
1 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:50, 26095, S |
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11-Jul-2010 |
2 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26200, S |
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18-Jul-2010 |
3 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
28:08, 26383, S |
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25-Jul-2010 |
4 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
28:08, 26383, S |
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12-Sep-2010 |
1 |
D H Lawrence |
Roger McGough |
27:46, 26040, S |
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19-Sep-2010 |
2 |
Louis MacNeice |
Roger McGough |
27:41, 25969, S |
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26-Sep-2010 |
3 |
American poems |
Roger McGough |
27:32, 25816, S |
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03-Oct-2010 |
4 |
Home |
Roger McGough |
27:34, 25858, S |
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10-Oct-2010 |
5 |
autumn, rain storms and migrant birds |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26190, S |
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17-Oct-2010 |
6 |
life's transitions |
Roger McGough |
27:50, 26101, S |
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24-Oct-2010 |
7 |
Scottish poets ancient and modern |
Roger McGough |
28:10, 26407, S |
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Cast |
Parameters |
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23-Jan-2011 |
1 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:36, 25880, S |
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30-Jan-2011 |
2 |
TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land |
Roger McGough |
28:16, 26515, S |
| 06-Feb-2011 | 3 |
Orpheus |
Roger McGough |
27:48, 26072, S |
| 13-Feb-2011 | 4 |
poetry to stir the senses |
Roger McGough |
28:05, 26339, S |
| 20-Feb-2011 | 5 |
a magical mix of poetry requests |
Roger McGough |
27:22, 25661, S |
| 27-Feb-2011 | 6 |
consoling poems |
Roger McGough |
27:47, 26057, S |
| 06-Mar-2011 | 7 |
poems that could inspire athletes at the Olympics |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26198, S |
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08-May-2011 |
1 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
28:02, 26285, S |
| 15-May-2011 | 2 |
A.E Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' |
Roger McGough |
28:02, 26292, S |
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22-May-2011 |
3 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:57, 26216, S |
| 29-May-2011 | 4 | Dawn to Dusk |
Roger McGough |
27:44, 26002, S |
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05-Jun-2011 |
5 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:44, 26003, S |
| 12-Jun-2011 | pre-empted by special | |||
| 19-Jun-2011 | 6 | summer poems |
Roger McGough |
27:57, 26206, S |
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26-Jun-2011 |
7 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:53, 26149, S |
| 03-Jul-2011 | 8 | listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:58, 26165, S |
| 29-Aug-2011 | 1 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:47, 26007, S |
| 04-Sep-2011 | 2 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:39, 25876, S |
| 11-Sep-2011 | 3 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:22, 25619, S |
| 18-Sep-2011 | 4 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:59, 26183, S |
| 25-Sep-2011 | 5 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:41, 25907, S |
| 02-Oct-2011 | 6 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
28:04, 26269, S |
| 09-Oct-2011 | 7 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:42, 25920, S |
| 16-Oct-2011 | 8 |
Rich autumnal offerings |
Roger McGough |
27:29, 25727, S |
| 23-Oct-2011 | 9 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:23, 25633, S |
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Cast |
Parameters |
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08-Jan-2012 |
1 |
Winter, star-gazing and time |
Roger McGough |
27:45, 25964, S |
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15-Jan-2012 |
2 |
red-hot poetry |
Roger McGough |
27:35, 25817, S |
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22-Jan-2012 |
3 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:31, 25756, S |
| 29-Jan-2012 | 4 |
Music and Lyrics |
Roger McGough |
27:31, 25759, S |
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05-Feb-2012 |
5 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:20, 25579, S |
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12-Feb-2012 |
6 |
spine chilling poetry |
Roger McGough |
27:56, 26147, S |
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19-Feb-2012 |
7 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:40, 25900, S |
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26-Feb-2012 |
8 |
listeners' requests |
Roger McGough |
27:51, 26067, S |
| 18-Mar-2012 | ? |
the Radio 4 More than Words listening festival |
Roger McGough |
28:49, 26967, S |