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Poetry with Roger McGough

Cerys revisits the 6 Music Festival in Liverpool with another chance to hear her conversation with Roger McGough. Plus archive festival tracks from Julia Jacklin, Baloji and more.

Cerys hand picks tracks from her favourite 6 Music Festival performances. There's new performances from Michael Kiwanuka and Nubya Garcia as well as archive live tracks from Ibibio Sound Machine, Hot 8 Brass Band, King Creosote, Public Service Broadcasting, The Comet is Coming, Baloji, Julia Holter and Julia Jacklin. Cerys also looks back at her interview with poet Roger McGough. The conversation was recorded at the 6 Music Festival in Liverpool back in 2019, at a time when Roger published his collection of poems, Joined Up Writing. The collection explored the human experience in all its shades of light and dark in Roger's signature witty style.

Roger McGough is an award-winning poet, playwright, broadcaster and children's author. Over his career he's presented Radio 4's Poetry Please, adapted lyrics for the stage production of Wind in the Willows, won a Bafta for his film Kurt, Mungo, BP and Me, and was the fellow of poetry at the University of Loughborough before becoming a fellow at Liverpool's John Moores University. In 1968 Roger topped the UK charts with the comic group The Scaffold with their single Lily The Pink, in 1997 he was awarded and OBE and in 2005 he published is autobiography, Said and Done.

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Music Played

  • Montparnasse Musique & Kasai Allstars & Basokin

    Panter

  • Jerry Garcia

    Palm Sunday

    • All Good Things (The Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions): Cats Under The Stars.
    • London Records 90 Limited.
    • 3.

  • John Grant

    Boy From Michigan

    • Boy From Michigan.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Gagarin (6 Music Festival, 2015)

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Go! (6 Music Festival, 2015)

  • King Creosote

    Wake Up To This (6 Music Festival, 2017)

  • Dorothy Ashby

    Afro Harping

    • A Complete Introduction To Chess, Checker And Cadet CD4.
    • Universal Music (UK) Limited.
    • 10.

  • The Beatles

    And I Love Her

    • 1962-1966.
    • Apple.
    • 5.

  • Nick Hakim & Roy Nathanson

    Moonman

  • Faramarz

    Ba Man Beraghs

  • Hot 8 Brass Band

    Rock With The Hot 8 (6 Music Festival, 2020)

  • Luiz Gabriel Lopes

    Sonhar Feito Planta

  • Betty Griffin

    Free Spirit

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Castles Made Of Sand

    • Axis: Bold As Love.
    • 9.

  • The Comet Is Coming

    Blood Of The Past (6 Music Festival 2019)

  • Bill Withers

    Use Me

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon

    Bill

  • Bill Withers

    Harlem

    • Collections.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 5.

  • Elza Soares

    Firmeza (feat. Rodrigo Campos)

    • The Woman at the End of the World.

  • Joe Cocker

    Delta Lady (Radio 1 Session, 7 Oct 1968)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1969.
    • Premier.

  • Baloji

    Unite Et Litre (6 Music Festival, 2017)

  • Baloji

    Spoiler (6 Music Festival, 2017)

  • Charles Kynard

    El Toro Poo Poo

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Hero (6 Music Festival, 2021)

  • Julia Holter

    Silhouette (6 Music Festival, 2016)

  • The Headhunters

    God Made Me Funky

  • Ibibio Sound Machine

    The Talking Fish (Asem Usem Lyak) (6 Music Festival, 2015)

  • Julia Jacklin

    Body (6 Music Festival, 2019)

  • Nubya Garcia

    The Message Continues (6 Music Festival, 2021)

  • Alex Rex

    Song Of Self Doubt

  • Alex Rex

    Handfull Of Hair

  • Alex Rex

    What's Shouted In The Dark

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Mar 2021 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music