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Listener Stories

Listeners tell Roger McGough the stories behind their poetry requests. Poems include William Blake's The Tyger, The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes and To the Cuckoo by Wordsworth. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 May 201623:30

This Week's Poems

Retrospect

by Rupert Brooke

From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd

My Star

by Robert Browning

From The Poetical Works of Robert Browning Vol II

Published by John Murray

To the Cuckoo

by William Wordsworth

Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber and Faber

IX from Last Poems

By AE Housman

From The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman

Published by Jonathan Cape

Extract from Sand

by Dylan Iorworth

(sent in by listener)

Stop Thief (rewritten)

By Roger McGough

The Thought Fox

by Ted Hughes

From Poetry Please – The Nation’s Best-Loved Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

Away and See

by Carol Ann Duffy

From Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems

Published by Penguin

The Tyger

by William Blake

From Poetry Please – the Nation’s Best-Loved Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover

by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester

Taken from the CD Popular Poetry, Popular Verse Vol II

Label: Naxos

Lines on a Young Lady's Photo Album

by Philip Larkin

From Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

Published by Faber & Faber

The Horse Whisperer

by Andrew Forster

Taken from https://herddynamics.wordpress.com/horse-whisperer-poem-by-andrew-forster/

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
ProducerSally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 May 201616:30
  • Sat 7 May 201623:30