Altered States
Roger McGough has poetry to take you into altered states, reveries and waking dreams... including Tennyson's strange and magical Lotus-Eaters and Coleridge's Kubla Khan. The readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma.
Producer Beth O'Dea.
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This Week's Poems
The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth
From Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics
Published by Lowrie Press
Extract from Fragments from an Unfinished Drama
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
From The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Published by The Modern Library
The Lotus-Eaters
By Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
The Fairies
By William Allingham
From The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems
Published by BBC Books
Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Coleridge: Poetical Works
Published by Oxford University Press
To Imagination
By Emily Bronte
From The Brontes – Selected Poems
Published by Dent
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Tim Pigott-Smith |
| Reader | Indira Varma |
| Producer | Beth O'Dea |
Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Sep 201516:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 19 Sep 201523:30BBC Radio 4
