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Poetry Please

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems reflecting the wartime experience of life away from the battlefields, including work by well-known figures such as Noël Coward and Edith Sitwell , and powerful, descriptive verse by less well-known young women poets of the day whose work sheds a revealing light on the realities of life on the home front. The readers are Pat Hughes , David Collins and Bonnie Hurren. Repeated from Sunday

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Introduces:
Roger McGough
Introduces:
Edith Sitwell
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Pat Hughes
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David Collins
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Bonnie Hurren.

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