At the Hay Festival
Roger McGough is joined by Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian, impressionist, poetry-writer - at the Hay Festival.
A special edition recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
Roger McGough celebrates the show with a selection of the most requested poems on Poetry Please sprinkled with a few of his own. He’s joined by impressionist, actor and comedian Alistair McGowan who also writes poetry. Expect a journey through some of the nation’s favourite poems as well as a few laughs as well as some unexpected ‘guest appearances’ courtesy of Alistair.
Producer: Maggie Ayre for BBC Audio, Bristol.
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This Week's Poems
To Poetry Please by Roger McGough
From Poetry Please
Published by Faber & Faber
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
From Selected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
Girl from a Train by Gareth Owen
From The Fox on the Roundabout
Published by Macmillan Children's Books
Old Papers by Alistair McGowan
(Unpublished)
Remember by Christina Rossetti
From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
Published by Macmillan & Co.
I So Liked Spring by Charlotte Mew
From Selected Poetry and Prose
Published by Faber & Faber
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
From Thomas Hardy (Faber Nature Poets)
Published by Faber & Faber
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
From Selected Poems
Published by MacMillan
Response to Wordsworth’s Daffodils (no title given) by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
The Bright Field by RS Thomas
From Laboratories of the Spirit
Published by Macmillan
The Tyger by William Blake
From Selected Poems – William Blake
Published by Penguin Classics
Radio 3 by Alistair McGowan
(Unpublished)
I will not be a wimp by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
From Collected Poems
Published by Vintage
Call Me World by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
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