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22/06/2008

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, with guest Fleur Adcock. The readers are Rebecca Smart and Mark Meadows.

To the Gentleman in Row E by Virginia Graham
From: Consider the Years 1938-1946
Publ: Persephone Books

Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
From: Collected Poems and Plays
Publ: Papermac

You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll
From: Unauthorized Versions
Publ: faber

This poem only features in the Sunday afternoon edition
An Old Dog Is the Best Dog by Felix Dennis
From: A Glass Half Full
Publ: Hutchinson

In a Library by Edmund Blunden
From: Poems of Many Years
Publ: Collins

The Chiffonier by Fleur Adcock
From: The Incident Book
Publ: Oxford

Future Work by Fleur Adcock
From: Poems 1960-2000
Publ: Bloodaxe

Engineers' Corner by Wendy Cope
From: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Publ: faber

This poem only features in the Saturday night edition
The Workshop by Billy Collins
From: Sailing Alone Around the Room
Publ: Random House

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
From: Everyman's Book of Evergreen Verse

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Sat 28 Jun 2008 23:30

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