Yeats
Roger McGough presents a programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats. With Yeats's biographer Roy Foster, voices from the archive and some of Yeats's best-loved poems.
Roger McGough presents a special programme marking 75 years since the death of WB Yeats. With Yeats' biographer Professor Roy Foster, voices from the archive including Seamus Heaney, Sinead Cusack and Steven Rea, and of course some of Yeats' best loved poetry. Poems requested by listeners and featured on the programme include He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and The Second Coming.
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This Week's Poems
Song of the Old Mother
By W.B Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats
Published by Macmillan
Song of Wandering Aengus
By W.B Yeats
Taken from the CD ‘Now and In Time to Be’ by Christy Moore
Label: Grapevine Label
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
By W. B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
The Host of the Air
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
Easter 1916
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
The Second Coming
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
Long-Legged Fly
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
The Wild Swans at Coole
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
Extract from Under Ben Bulben
By W.B Yeats
From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Interviewed Guest | Roy Foster |
| Reader | Seamus Heaney |
| Reader | Sinead Cusack |
| Reader | Stephen Rea |
Broadcasts
- Sun 31 Aug 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 6 Sep 201423:30BBC Radio 4
