Poetry Extra: Poetry Please

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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 - George Mackay Brown

Poetry Please - George Mackay Brown

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - George Mackay Brown

Daljit Nagra selects the best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please featuring Orkney writer George Mackay Brown, 100 years since his birth. Reader John Mackay.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please with a programme celebrating 100 years since the birth of George Mackay Brown.  

Roger McGough presents a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet and prose writer George Mackay Brown. He wrote poems full of wonderful imagery, capturing the life and characters of those islands. Reader John Mackay. 

Producer Sally Heaven.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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