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

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Poetry Please: George Mackay Brown

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George Mackay Brown

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, George Mackay Brown

Roger McGough with a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown.

Roger McGough presents a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet and prose writer George Mackay Brown, who died in 1996.

Roger McGough with a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet and prose writer George Mackay Brown, who died twenty years ago this year. He wrote poems full of wonderful imagery, capturing the life and characters of those islands. Reader John Mackay. Producer Sally Heaven.

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