Virtue and Vice
Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests on the theme of Virtue and Vice, that moral tug of war. Featuring poems from Thomas Hardy, Simon Armitage and Ogden Nash.
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests on the theme of Virtue and Vice, that moral tug of war.
Guiding us through the moral maze will be poems from Thomas Hardy, Simon Armitage and Ogden Nash about temptation, conflict and the pleasures of resisting or succumbing to everything in between. How could you resist?
Readers are Rosie Cavaliero and John Mackay.
Producer: Sarah Addezio.
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This Week's Poems
Choose Something Like a Star
By Robert Frost
From Collected Poems, Prose & Plays
Published by Library of America
Virtue is its Own Reward
By Margaret Fishback
From I Feel Better Now
Published by EP Dutton & Co.
Virtue
By George Herbert
Taken from Poetry Foundation
Poem
By Simon Armitage
Taken from
An Essay on Man
By Alexander Pope
Taken from Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
This Is Just To Say
By William Carlos Williams
From The Collected Poems: Volume I
Published by New Directions Publishing Corp.
A Drink With Something In It
By Ogden Nash
From I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash
Published by Andre Deutsch
Drunk
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Meantime
Published by Picador
The Men Are Weeping in the Gym
By Andrew McMillan
From Physical
Published by Jonathan Cape
Still Life
By Katie Ford
Taken from Poetry Foundation
One Cigarette
By Edwin Morgan
From Worlds
Published by Penguin
The Voice
By Thomas Hardy
From Poets of the English Language
Published by Viking Press
To His Mistress Going To Bed
By John Donne
Taken from The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright
From Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose.
Published by Wesleyan University Press.
Innocence
By Thomas Traherne
Taken from Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 11 Jun 201716:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 17 Jun 201723:30BBC Radio 4
