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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: Poetry Please: Goblin Market

22/11/2015

Poetry Please: Goblin Market

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please: Goblin Market

An edition featuring works by Christina Rossetti, including Goblin Market.

Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring works by Christina Rossetti, including Goblin Market. The reader is Shirley Henderson. Presented by Roger McGough.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive. 

In 'Poetry Please' Roger McGough features the poems of Christina Rossetti. Shirley Henderson gives a beguiling rendition of what is arguably Rossetti's most famous poem 'Goblin Market', published in 1862. It's a heady fairy tale about temptation involving two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. The poem has a sexual undertone and a menacing quality that lurks among the persistent pleas of the fruit selling Goblin men to 'come buy, come buy.' Visits to your greengrocer may never be the same again. 

There is also a reading of another of Rossetti's much requested and moving poems 'Remember,' as well as a lesser known poem of pilgrimage, 'Up-hill'. 

Producer: Sarah Langan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014 .

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