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Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.

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Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite poetry requested by listeners.

Roger McGough presents a selection of requests, with work by Norman MacCaig, Stephen Spender and Peter McDonald. The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Peter Marinker and Alison McKenna.

A mixture of poetry requests to take us from dawn to dusk, with work by Norman MacCaig, Stephen Spender and Peter McDonald. There's a languid poem dreamt up by the American James Wright as he lay in a hammock at dusk, one by DH Lawrence longing for the company of his love to watch the sun setting and a 'crop of stars' growing silently, and a wry warning to a deluded Lothario as he takes the night air to try his luck. 

The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Peter Marinker and Alison McKenna.
Producer: Sarah Langan.

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