25/09/2011
Roger McGough presents poetry requests, read by Paul Mundell and Mark Meadows. Singer and poetry lover Cerys Matthews also reads Land of my Mothers by Idris Davies.
Roger McGough presents a selection of favourite poetry requests, read by Paul Mundell and Mark Meadows.
Today's programme includes two tense cradle songs by Louis MacNeice, poems about significant pauses by Paul Muldoon and Jean Sprackland, and two wonderful pieces of distinctly Welsh verse. Singer, 6 music presenter, and poetry lover Cerys Matthews reads a poem by the miner turned poet Idris Davies that's a clever take on the Welsh National Anthem. 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves captures a fantastically odd conversation, and there are other surreal offerings from Jules Renard and GΓΌnter Grass.
Producer: Sarah Langan.
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