Poems to Make You Laugh
Roger McGough presents poetry to make you laugh, with poems from Wendy Cope, Ivor Cutler, Michael Rosen, Clive James, Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Mitchell.
Roger McGough presents poetry to make you laugh, with poets from Wendy Cope to Ivor Cutler, taking in Kit Wright, Clive James and Adrian Mitchell along the way.
There's Carol Ann Duffy's ode to the Kray Sisters, Michael Rosen's mickey-taking brother, and Roger throws a few of his own into the mix for good measure. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Quite Fun
By Harry Graham
From Axed Between the Ears – A Poetry Anthology
Published by Heinemann Educational Publishers
The Bath
By Harry Graham
From When Grandmama Fell Off the Boat: The Best of Harry Graham
Published by Sheldrake Press
Give Up Slimming, Mum
By Kit Wright
From Rabbiting On by Kit Wright
Published by Lions / HarperCollins Ltd
Me and My Brother
By Michael Rosen
From The Hypnotiser by Michael Rosen
Published by HarperCollins
Bad Day at the Ark
By Roger McGough
From The Way Things Are by Roger McGough
Published by Viking
The Horse
By Naomi Royde Smith
From The Faber Book of Comic Verse
Published by Faber
They Tuck You Up
By Adrian Mitchell
Taken from
Celia, Celia
By Adrian Mitchell
From The Nation’s Favourite Comic Poems
Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd
Haiku: Looking Out of the Back Bedroom Window Without my Glasses-
By Wendy Cope
From Two Cures For Love : Selected Poems 1979-2006
Published by Faber
Gruts for Tea
By Ivor Cutler
From the CD ‘An Elpee and Two Epees’
Label: Decca
On a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray
From The Faber Book of Comic Verse
Published by Faber
Windows is Shutting Down
By Clive James
From Clive James – Angels Over Elsinore – Collected Verse 2003-2008
Published by Picador
The Ladies of the Charity Shop
By Peter Wyton
From Not All Men are From Mars by Peter Wyton
Published by Women’s Aid
The Kray Sisters
By Carol Ann Duffy
From The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Published by Picador
Poundland
By Simon Armitage
From Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
Published by Faber
I Rely on You
By Hovis Presley
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Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Jan 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 24 Jan 201523:30BBC Radio 4
