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Alice Arnold

Poetry Extra: Poetry Please - Poets Laureate

Poetry Please - Poets Laureate

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - Poets Laureate

Daljit Nagra chooses memorable programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra chooses Poetry Please: Poets Laureate with a selection of poets including Betjeman and Carol Ann Duffy. From 2014.

It's 50 years since John Betjeman was appointed Poet Laureate.

To mark the occasion Daljit Nagra chooses 'Poetry Please: Poets Laureate' with Roger McGough and a selection of works by Poets Laureate past and present.  

These include Wordsworth, Tennyson, Betjeman, Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy. 

There's also a Cecil Day Lewis poem read by his son Daniel Day-Lewis, recorded as part of the exhibition 'Poetry for the Palace: Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy' at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse. 

Readers:  Anton Lesser and Alice Arnold.

Producer:  Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.

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