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Poetry Please

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6/9. Oscar Wilde 's The Ballad of Reading Gaol is the focus of today's programme. Roger McGough introduces Sam West 's reading of this powerful work, which conveys Wilde's experience of the hanging of a fellow inmate during the writer's imprisonment. Repeated from Sunday

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Oscar Wilde
Introduces:
Roger McGough
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Sam West
Source: Radio Times

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