麻豆约拍

Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please: Winter, Star-gazing and Time. Presented by Roger McGough and read by Pippa Haywood, Peter Marinker, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams.

There are well-known works by Sheenagh Pugh and Alfred Tennyson contemplating the new year. Roger marks Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday with a poem by Robert Frost about the importance of telescopes.

Winter looms large, with poems by Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dana Gioia, but in contrast there are rays of sunshine from John Lyons.

Producer: Toby Field

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2012.