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Poetry Please

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Roger McGough introduces more requests for much loved poems, including sonnets by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti , whose 175th birthday is this week. Peter Marinker, Claire Skinner and Philip Franks also read poems by Auden, Rumi, and Wendy Cope. Producer Mark Smalley
(Repeated Saturday)

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Claire Skinner
Unknown:
Philip Franks
Unknown:
Wendy Cope.
Producer:
Mark Smalley
Source: Radio Times

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