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

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Roger McGough with poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr.

Roger McGough presents poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr, including poems by Philip Larkin, DH Lawrence and Kathryn Simmonds.

Roger McGough with a rich mixture of poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr.

Poems of temptation, and of lost loves and places, featuring a couple of snakes, a rusty fridge and a talking bull walrus. With W.S. Graham's lovely poem of longing for a favourite place from childhood, Loch Thom, and Kathryn Simmonds reads her own poems, including a love poem about a couple united by their dislike of the film The Fifth Element. There's a dash of acidity from Philip Larkin and a healthy dose of danger in a couple of snake poems by Denise Levertov and D.H. Lawrence. There's also a deceptive villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop and an unlikely conversation in a poem by the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlen.

Producer: Sarah Langan.

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