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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: Altered States

29/11/2015

Poetry Please: Altered States

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please: Altered States

Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring poetry to take you into altered states.

Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring poetry to take you into altered states, including Tennyson's strange and magical The Lotus-Eaters. 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 presents poetry to take you into altered states, reveries and waking dreams - including Tennyson's strange and magical Lotus-Eaters and Coleridge's Kubla Khan. 

The readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma. 

Producer: Beth O'Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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