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Poetry Please

A Bouquet of Flowers

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Roger McGough celebrates the centenary of the Chelsea Flower Show with a bouquet of poems about flowers.

Daisies from Emily Dickinson and Jon Silkin, roses by Blake and Burns and the wonderfully moving account of his son's birth 'The Almond Tree' by Jon Stallworthy.

With readers Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry Livingstone.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. Show less

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