Roger McGough presents poems to make you glad to be awake, alive and not in prison.

Listeners requests include the moving and uplifting poem 'Things I didn't know i Loved' by Nazim Hikmet; 'The Land of Mists' by the South Korean poet Kim Kwang-kyu; and an extraordinary poem contemplating the kind of miracle Polish poet Piotr Kniecicki would wish for if he could: 'Not Quite Convinced.'

There are also two poems by A E Housman and Slam Poetry champion Hollie McNish performs 'British National Breakfast'.

Roger is joined by readers Alex Lanipekun and Mark Meadows.
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. Show less