Attila the Stockbroker's Mum
Roger McGough introduces listeners' poetry requests, ranging from Keats to Attila the Stockbroker. The readers are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero and Zeb Soanes.
Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including a moving poem by Attila the Stockbroker reflecting on his mother's rich life before Alzheimer's gradually robbed her of her memory.
The readers this week are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero, Attila the Stockbroker and Radio 4 announcer and poetry lover, Zeb Soanes.
Producer Christine Hall.
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This Week's Poems
Please Mrs Butler
by Allan Ahlberg
From Please Mrs Butler
Published by Puffin Books
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
by William Wordsworth
From William Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber and Faber
A Subaltern’s Love Song
by John Betjeman
From The Best of Betjeman
Published by Penguin
On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters
by Oscar Wilde
From Oscar Wilde Selected Poems
Published by Fyfield Books
Extract from Endymion
by John Keats
From Keats’s Poetry and Prose
Published by W.W Norton and Company
To Night
by Joseph Blanco White
From Hispanic Anthology
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons
The Long Goodbye by Attila the Stockbroker
From Arguments Yard by Attila the Stockbroker
Published by Cherry Red Books
Zeb Soanes and Roger McGough
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Simon Armstrong |
| Reader | Rosie Cavaliero |
| Reader | Attila the Stockbroker |
| Reader | Zeb Soanes |
| Producer | Christine Hall |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Jun 201616:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 11 Jun 201623:30BBC Radio 4
