Pot Luck
Roger McGough presents half an hour of satirical poetry, read by Rory Bremner, with expert Katherine Rundell. Satire comes from poets as diverse as Horace, John Donne, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Hilaire Belloc and Adrian Mitchell. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Satire 1.3
By Horace
Translated by AS Kline
Taken from http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatiresBkISatIII.htm
Extract from Satire III
by John Donne
From Donne
Published by Everyman’s Library
Extract from A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind
by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
From English Satire – An Anthology
Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd
The Run Upon the Bankers
by Jonathan Swift
From Jonathan Swift – The Complete Poems
Published by Penguin
Extract from The Rape of The Lock
by Alexander Pope
From English Satire – An Anthology
Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd
Extract from The Masque of Anarchy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From English Romantic Poetry and Prose
Oxford University Press
Extract from Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Published by MacMillan Children’s Books
The Garden Party
by Hilaire Belloc
From H.Belloc – Complete Verse
Published by Duckworth
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
by D H Lawrence
From D H Lawrence – Complete Poems
Published by Penguin
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by ee cummings
From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
To Whom It May Concern
By Adrian Mitchell
From The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
Car School
By Michael Rosen
From Big Book of Bad Things
Published by Puffin
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Rory Bremner |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Oct 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 24 Oct 201523:30BBC Radio 4
