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.
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This Week's Poems
Timothy Winters
by Charles Causley
Remember
by Christina Rossetti
Adlestrop
by Edward Thomas
Not Adlestrop
By Dannie Abse
The Listeners
by Walter de la Mare
To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell
Ithaka
By C.P Cavafy
translated from the Greek by Edmund
Keeley & Philip Sherrard
Tarantella
By Hilaire Belloc
When You are Old
by WB Yeats
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Eleanor Tremain |
| Reader | Peter Marinker |
| Producer | Tim Dee |
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Oct 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 25 Oct 201423:30BBC Radio 4
