Jubilee Poetry

Selected verses by the Poets Laureate over the ages for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002. Readers include Juliet Stevenson.

John Dryden - Song: “Why should a foolish marriage vow”;
C Day Lewis - If Love Means Exploration
Andrew Motion - On the Table;
William Wordsworth - She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways;
Resolution and Independence;
Intimations of Immortality;
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free;
Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
London, 1802;
Robert Bridges - London Snow;
Robert Southey - The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them.
John Betjeman - In A Bath Teashop;
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel;
How to Get On in Society
Death of King George V
Alfred Tennyson - In Memoriam;
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington;
The Charge of the Light Brigade;
John Masefield - Sea Fever;

Readers - Samantha Bond; Juliet Stevenson; Samuel West

Producer - Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.