Poetry Extra: Poetry Please

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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 - Hollie McNish

Poetry Please - Hollie McNish

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - Hollie McNish

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

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please - Holly McNish - the performance poet -  who joins Roger McGough. From 2018.

The poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please - Holly McNish:

Performance poet Holly joins Roger McGough to pick her favourite poems:  

Poems chosen:-
 Digging by Seamus Heaney read by Seamus Heaney
 Reading to You By Hollie McNish 
 Grafters by Norah Hanson 
 From Sparks Read by Hollie McNish
 April Sunshine by Jackie Kay read by Jackie Kay
 An Abortion By Liz Lochhead read by Hollie McNish
 School Gates by Sabrina Mahfouz read by Hollie McNish
 Birds and Trains by Michael Pedersen read by Hollie McNish
 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen read by Corporal Barbara Ennis
 Slough by John Betjeman read by Tim McMullan

Producer Sally Heaven.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

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