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Poetry Extra: Poetry Please - Winter, Star-gazing And Time

Poetry Please - Winter, Star-gazing And Time

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - Winter, Star-gazing And Time

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

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please: Winter, Star-gazing and Time. Seasonal poems presented by Roger McGough. From 2012.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please: Winter, Star-gazing and Time.  Presented by Roger McGough and read by Pippa Haywood, Peter Marinker, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams.

There are well-known works by Sheenagh Pugh and Alfred Tennyson contemplating the new year.  Roger marks Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday with a poem by Robert Frost about the importance of telescopes.  

Winter looms large, with poems by Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dana Gioia, but in contrast there are rays of sunshine from John Lyons.  

Producer: Toby Field

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

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