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Poetry Please: Altered States

Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring poetry to take you into altered states, including Tennyson's strange and magical The Lotus-Eaters. Presented by Roger McGough.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive.

In 'Poetry Please', Roger McGough presents 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

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

30 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Nov 201517:00
  • Mon 30 Nov 201505:00