Frank Skinner
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please. 1/4 Writer and comedian Frank Skinner makes his selection from listeners' poetry requests
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please, sharing listener requests and recommendations for poems they'd like to hear. His first guest is the writer and comedian Frank Skinner. A huge lover of and champion for poetry, Frank's choices from the Poetry Please post bag include poems by Liz Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Sprackland, Jen Hadfield and W.H. Auden.
Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio
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This Week's Poems
Connemara
By Liz Berry
From The Republic of Motherhood
Published by Chatto & Windus
Dolmen
By Jen Hadfield
From The Stone Age
Published by Picador
Note from the Outside
By Jean Sprackland
From Hard Water
Published by Jonathan Cape
Archive courtesy of The Poetry Archive
Vinegar
By Roger McGough
From Selected Poems 1967-1987
Published by Jonathan Cape
Prayer at the Gate
By PJ Harvey
From Orlam
Published by Picador
Extract from Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope
From Alexander Pope - The Major Works
Published by OUP
Night Mail
By WH Auden
From The Collected Shorter Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
A Subaltern’s Love Song
By John Betjeman
From Collected Poems
Published by John Murray
Broadcasts
- Tue 4 Jun 202416:00BBC Radio 4
- Tue 3 Sep 202423:00BBC Radio 4
