Secrets
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests on the theme of secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name.
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests on the theme of Secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name. With poems by Seamus Heaney, Blake Morrison and G K Chesterton dealing with the subject, the programme features an interview with a poet; Don Paterson OBE and a priest; Father Christopher Hilton.
Readers are Pippa Haywood and Anton Lesser.
Producer: Sarah Addezio.
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This Week's Poems
Russian Doll
By Helen Dunmore
From Secrets
Published by Bodley Head Children’s Books, Random House
Heiss mich nicht redden / Bid me be silent
By Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Translated by AS Kleine
Taken from
Winter My Secret
By Christina Rossetti
From Christina Rossetti - Poems and Prose
Published by Everyman
To The Secret Rose
By WB Yeats
Taken from
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Punishment
By Seamus Heaney
From Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996
Published by Faber & Faber
Xerox
By Blake Morrison
From Volume 1 of Penguin Modern Poets
Published by Penguin
Extract from The Secret People
By GK Chesterton
From The Collected Poems of G K Chesterton
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd
Confession
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Mean Time
Published by Picador
True Confessions
By Liz Lochhead
From True Confessions and New Cliches
Published by Polygon
The White Lie
By Don Paterson
From Landing Light
Published by Faber & Faber
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Pippa Haywood |
| Reader | Anton Lesser |
| Producer | Sarah Addezio |
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Jun 201716:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 24 Jun 201723:30BBC Radio 4
