Adventures in Poetry

Last Edited: 06-May-2012 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date
Episode Title
Cast
Parameters
20-Nov-2005 6-1 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peggy Reynolds, Richard Holmes, Rageh Omaar
produced by Frances Burns
28:03, 26252, S
27-Nov-2005 6-2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Peggy Reynolds, Jay Parini, Sean Street, Matt
Harvey, Janet Street-Porter
produced by Viv Beeby
28:00, 26265, S
04-Dec-2005 6-3
The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes
Peggy Reynolds, Simon Armitage
produced by Frances Burns
28:07, 26367, S
11-Dec-2005 6-4 Donal Og, Translated by Lady Augusta Gregory
of Goole Park
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Frances Burns
28:03, 26312, S
18-Dec-2005
repeated
07-Oct-2007
6-5 Morning Has Broken by Elizabeth Fargeon
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Viv Beeby
27:45, 26026, S
25-Dec-2005 6-6 The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Viv Beeby
28:03, 26313, S
03-Sep-2006 7-1 The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Tim Dee
27:58, 26234, S
10-Sep-2006 7-2 Timothy Winters by Charles Causley
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Viv Beeby
28:01, 26276, S
17-Sep-2006 7-3 First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Tim Dee
28:03, 26312, S
24-Sep-2006 7-4 Tonight at Noon by Adrian Henri
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
28:05, 26334, S
07-Oct-2007
repeat of
18-Dec-2005
8-1 Morning Has Broken by Elizabeth Fargeon
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Viv Beeby
27:35, 25873, S
a repeated episode
counted twice by BBC
14-Oct-2007 8-2 First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
By Allen Ginsberg
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Peter Everett
28:17, 26525, S
21-Oct-2007 8-3 To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Peter Everett
27:46, 26045, S
28-Oct-2007 8-4 Portia's speech in defence of Antonio in
the Merchant of Venice
Peggy Reynolds, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips,
Helena Kennedy QC, Lisa Jardine, rabbi Julia
Neuberger and actress Janet Suzman
produced by Sara Davies
27:32, 26200, S
04-Nov-2007 8-5 Hilaire Belloc's Matilda
Peggy Reynolds, Michael Morpurgo, Debbie
Isitt, Michael Rosen, Kim Reynolds
produced by Sara Davies
28:02, 26284, S
23-Nov-2008 9-1 The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Sarah Langan
27:58, 26223, S
30-Nov-2008 9-2 Ithaka by CP Cavafy
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Sarah Langan
27:48, 26077, S
07-Dec-2008 9-3 I Am by John Clare
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Mark Smalley
28:00, 26251, S
14-Dec-2008 9-4 Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love
by Cole Porter
Peggy Reynolds, Bel Mooney, Simon Townley
Producer: Mark Smalley
28:12, 26446, S
08-Nov-2009 10-1 Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Tim Dee
24:21, 22838, S
15-Nov-2009 10-2 To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
24:46, 23219. S
22-Nov-2009 10-3 Robert Frost's Mending Wall
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Tim Dee
24:36, 23067, S
29-Nov-2009 10-4 Philip Larkin's An Arundel Tomb
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
24:52, 23318, S
06-Dec-2009 10-5 Robert Browning's My Last Duchess
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Mark Smalley
24:53, 23338, S
13-Dec-2009 10-6 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
by John Keats
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Tim Dee
24:38, 23098, S
05-Dec-2010 11-1 Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
27:56, 26189, S
12-Dec-2010 11-2 Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
27:12, 25507, S
19-Dec-2010 11-3 The Gate of the Year
by Minnie Louise Haskins
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
27:54, 26162, S
26-Dec-2010 11-4 Wreck of the Hesperus
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Jane Greenwood
27:53, 26149, S
02-Jan-2011 11-5 Journey of the Magi by T S Eliot
Peggy Reynolds
produced by Christine Hall
28:02, 26292, S
01-Apr-2012 12-1 next to of course god america i --
e e cummings
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Mark Smalley
27:38, 25864, S
08-Apr-2012 12-2 The Raven -- Edgar Allan Poe
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Sarah Langan
27:27, 25755, S
15-Apr-2012
12-3
Dear Mr Lee -- UA Fanthorpe
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Sara Davies
27:50, 26042, S
22-Apr-2012 12-4 Vitai Lampada by Henry Newbolt
Peggy Reynolds
Producer: Christine Hall
27:34, 25804, S

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