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POETRY PLEASE
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Poetry Please
Sunday 16:30-17:00
Saturday (rpt) 23:00-23:30
The poems you want to hear
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If you'd like to suggest a particular poem for possible inclusion in the programme, contact us - don't forget to tell us why you'd like to hear your choice...
This week
Sunday 30 October 2005
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Roger McGough
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
This week's edition is devoted to Shakespeare

From A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 2, Scene 1
'I know a bank where ...'

Sonnet 18
'Shall I compare thee...'

Song from Cymbeline,
Act 4, Scene 2
'Fear no more the heat o' the sun...'

From Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 5
'To-morrow and Tom-morrow and To-morrow...'

From Hamlet
Act 4, Scene 7
'There is a willow grows...'

Song from Much ado about Nothing
Act 2, Scene 3
'Sigh no more ladies...'

Song from As You Like It
Act 2, Scene 5
'Under the Greenwood Tree'

Sonnet 116
'Let me not to the marriage ...'

Sonnet 29
'When in disgrace with fortune..'

Sonnet 91
'Some glory in their birth...'

From Richard II
Act 5, Scene 5
'I have been studying...'

Excerpts from 'A Lover's Complaint'

Sonnet 49
'Against that time...'

From Troilus and Cressida
Act 3, Scene 3
'Time hath my lord...'

From The Tempest
Act 1, Scene 4
'Our revels now are ended...'


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