Families
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests with a family theme. Including poems by Anna Akhmatova, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Sylvia Plath. With readers James Fleet and Amanda Root. Producer Sally Heaven.
Last on
This Week's Poems
Family Group
By Ken Smith
From You Again – Last Poems and Other Words
Published by Bloodaxe
Stones on a Dorset Beach
By David Scott
From Playing for England
Published by Bloodaxe
My Old Cat
By Hal Summers
From The Oxford Book of Death
Published by Oxford University Press
The Road to Persia
By Kathryn Simmonds
From Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Published by Seren
Parting
By Kathleen Raine
From The School Bag
Published by Faber and Faber
Once
By Carol Rumens
From Poems: 1968-2004
Published by Bloodaxe
Farewell
By Agha Shahid Ali
From The Veiled Suite – The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Published by W.W Norton & Company
Dedication
From ‘Requiem’
By Anna Akhmatova
Translated by D.M Thomas
From You Will Hear Thunder – Akhmatova: Poems
Published by Secker & Warburg
For My Daughter
By Jo Roach
From Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology
Published by Oxford Poets
Cheap Moisturiser
By John Siddique
From The Prize
Published by The Rialto
Never
By Jacob Sam-La Rose
From Breaking Silence
Published by Bloodaxe
Daddy
By Sylvia Plath
Read by Sylvia Plath
From LP ‘The Poet Speaks’
Label: Argo (Decca)
PLP1085
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | James Fleet |
| Reader | Amanda Root |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Sep 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 26 Sep 201523:30BBC Radio 4
