Michael Morpurgo
Roger’s guest is children’s writer Michael Morpurgo. His choices reflect a deep love of rural life and also include moving reflections on war, and peace. Including poetry by Ted Hughes, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon and Raymond Briggs.
Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
By Sean Rafferty
From the CD In Tune with the World – The Poetry of Sean Rafferty
Label: Farms for City Children
Extract from Dart
By Alice Oswald
From Dart
Published by Faber & Faber
My Own True Family
By Ted Hughes
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
Yew and Me
By Michael Morpurgo
From My Heart Was a Tree: Poems and Stories to Celebrate Trees
Published by Two Hoots
Extract from Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas
From Dylan Thomas – The Poems
Published by J.M Dent & Sons Ltd
In Memoriam Easter 1915
By Edward Thomas
From Edward Thomas – Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
By Eleanor Farjeon
Aunties
By Raymond Briggs
From Only Remembered
Published by Corgi Childrens
The Tall Ships
By Valerie Bloom
From Hot Like Fire and other poems
Published by Bloomsbury
Call Me World
By Roger McGough
As yet unpublished
(Written for an exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool of Ukrainian photographers)
Let There be Peace
By Lemn Sissay
From Listener
Published by Canongate Books
Broadcasts
- Sun 25 Jun 202316:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sun 2 Jul 202300:15BBC Radio 4
