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 - Fleur Adcock

Poetry Please - Fleur Adcock

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Poetry Please - Fleur Adcock

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

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please with guest curator Fleur Adcock and poems include Old Man by Edward Thomas.  From 2019.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects and edition of Poetry Please featuring guest curator Fleur Adcock.   And Daljit reads a poem from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: The Cat Prince and Other Poems by Michael Pederson.   

Fleur Adcock's choices include To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker, Old Man by Edward Thomas and Fleur’s own poem A Visiting Angel.

Fleur brings along a sprig of something from her garden for Roger. 

Producer Sally Heaven.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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