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Virtue and Vice

Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests on the theme of Virtue and Vice, that moral tug of war. Featuring poems from Thomas Hardy, Simon Armitage and Ogden Nash.

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests on the theme of Virtue and Vice, that moral tug of war.

Guiding us through the moral maze will be poems from Thomas Hardy, Simon Armitage and Ogden Nash about temptation, conflict and the pleasures of resisting or succumbing to everything in between. How could you resist?

Readers are Rosie Cavaliero and John Mackay.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 17 Jun 2017 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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This Week's Poems

Choose Something Like a Star

By Robert Frost

From Collected Poems, Prose & Plays

Published by Library of America

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Virtue is its Own Reward

By Margaret Fishback

From I Feel Better Now

Published by EP Dutton & Co.

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Virtue

By George Herbert

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Poem

By Simon Armitage

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An Essay on Man

By Alexander Pope

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This Is Just To Say

By William Carlos Williams

From The Collected Poems: Volume I

Published by New Directions Publishing Corp.

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A Drink With Something In It

By Ogden Nash

From I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash

Published by Andre Deutsch

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Drunk

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Meantime

Published by Picador

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The Men Are Weeping in the Gym

By Andrew McMillan

From Physical

Published by Jonathan Cape

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Still Life

By Katie Ford

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One Cigarette

By Edwin Morgan

From Worlds

Published by Penguin

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The Voice

By Thomas Hardy

From Poets of the English Language

Published by Viking Press

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To His Mistress Going To Bed

By John Donne

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In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned

By James Wright

From Above the River: The Complete Poems and Selected Prose.

Published by Wesleyan University Press.

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Innocence

By Thomas Traherne

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Credit

Presenter Roger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 11 Jun 2017 16:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sat 17 Jun 2017 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4