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A Map of British Poetry: 9/12: Crowds and Cities

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Crowded city streets can be oppressive and yet energising. Love as well as hate poems have been dedicated to the city by our poets, presented here by the poet laureate Andrew Motion. With contributions from Steve Pile and Elizabeth Wilson, and poems by George Eliot, TS Eliot, John Gay, Roy Fisher, Oscar Wilde, Rosemary Tonks, John Betjeman, Maura Dooley and William Wordsworth.
Readers are Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Glover and Tom Courtenay.

Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm
Address: BBC Broadcasting House, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Motion
Contributor:
Elizabeth Wilson
Reader:
William Wordsworth
Reader:
Juliet Stevenson
Reader:
Kenneth Cranham
Reader:
Jamie Glover
Reader:
Tom Courtenay
Producer:
Tim Dee
Source: Radio Times

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