麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's radio poetry archive and selects three short programmes this week:

* Time for Verse: James Berry
* Time for Verse: Poets Laureate: Sir William D'Avenant
* Three Score and Ten: Wendy Cope.

(1) Time For Verse: James Berry - The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to James Berry about his life and his poetry. Poems: "Banana And Mackerel"; "Mek Drum Talk Man"

Reader: Mona Hammond
Producer: Alec Reid

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 1988.

(2) Time for Verse: Poets Laureate: 2 Sir William D'Avenant (1606-68)

Compiled and presented by Sean Street.

Readers: Martin Jarvis and David Goodland

Producer: - Margaret Bradley

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 1987.

(3) Three Score & Ten - Wendy Cope

Ian McMillan introduces Wendy Cope who reads three of her poems from programmes The Living Poet and Poetry Now, both broadcast in 1988.

Series featuring archive recordings from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3, with 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems.

Producer - Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 in 2016.

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