Poetry Please

Last Edited: 07-Jun-2018 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.


2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
BBC R4
04-Dec-2004
Poems for Infant Minds


15-May-2005 to
13-Nov-2005
17 episodes

7:56:07
01-Jan-2006 to
31-Dec-2006
28 episodes

12:59:29
07-Jan-2007 to
18-Nov-2007
26 episodes

12:20:25

2008
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
14-Sep-2008
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:53, 26146, S
21-Sep-2008
Robert W Service Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:52, 26130, S
28-Sep-2008
Christina Rossetti
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:50, 26100, S
05-Oct-2008
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:58, 26228, S
12-Oct-2008
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:05, 26329, S
19-Oct-2008
Funny Poems
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:52, 26133, S
26-Oct-2008
poems that celebrate the natural
world
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:36, 25890, S
13-Jan-2008 to
26-Oct-2008
total of 26 episodes including
the above

11:34:34

2009
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
11-Jan-2009
Listener Requests Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dee
27:56, 26201, S
18-Jan-2009
The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dee
27:19, 25621, S
25-Jan-2009
Robert Burns
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dee
27:40, 25953, S
01-Feb-2009
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
28:04, 26320, S
08-Feb-2009
Love Poems
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:36, 25883, S
15-Feb-2009
Poems by Adrian Mitchell
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:51, 26125, S
22-Feb-2009
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:47, 26048, S
01-Mar-2009
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:23, 25685, S
08-Mar-2009
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:34, 25850, S
17-May-2009
AE Housman and Walt Whitman
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:54, 26169, S
24-May-2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:49, 26089, S
31-May-2009
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:54, 26162, S
07-Jun-2009
the Book of Psalms
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:24, 25701, S
14-Jun-2009
UA Fanthorpe
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:39, 25935, S
21-Jun-2009
Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 poem The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:53, 26156, S
12-Jul-2009
poems including works by Milton, Ben Okri and Mary Oliver
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:33, 25830, S
19-Jul-2009
poems about space
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:02, 26296, S
26-Jul-2009
Listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
28:02, 26289, S
02-Aug-2009
No programmes  
 
09-Aug-2009
Tennyson
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:55, 26173, S
13-Sep-2009
the joy of living, the experience of memory loss
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:24, 25699, S
20-Sep-2009
works with an environmental theme
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:03, 26311, S
27-Sep-2009
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:57, 26220, S
04-Oct-2009
heroes and heroines
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:33, 25836, S
11-Oct-2009
18-Oct-2009
the programme's 30th birthday
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
24:48, 23266, S
24:25, 22906, S
25-Oct-2009
about snow and solitude
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
24:48, 23261, S
11-Jan-2009 to
25-Oct-2009
26 episodes

11:52:30

2010
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
31-Jan-2010
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:49, 26086, S
07-Jan-2010
a poetic landscape cast in frost
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:20, 25626, S
14-Feb-2010
Valentine's Day
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:50, 26095, S
21-Feb-2010
Newcastle is Peru
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowrey
27:49, 26084, S
28-Feb-2010
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:04, 26324, S
07-Mar-2010
Basil Bunting
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:02, 26291, S
14-Mar-2010
Listener Requests
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dee
27:37, 25902, S
21-Mar-2010
American Poetry
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:32, 25819, S
16-May-2010
poems learnt by heart while at school
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:33, 25836, S
23-May-2010
TS Eliot's Four Quartets
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:57, 26215, S
30-May-2010
Cambridge University Library
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:59, 26238, S
06-Jun-2010
Siegfried Sassoon's war poems
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:56, 26200, S
13-Jun-2010
a seasonal selection of poetry requests
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:30, 25786, S
20-Jun-2010
some of Shakespeare's sonnets and some other 17th-century masters
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
26:50, 25172, S
04-Jul-2010
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:50, 26095, S
11-Jul-2010
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:56, 26200, S
18-Jul-2010
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:08, 26383, S
25-Jul-2010
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:08, 26383, S
12-Sep-2010
D H Lawrence
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:46, 26040, S
19-Sep-2010
Louis MacNeice
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:41, 25969, S
26-Sep-2010
American poems
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:32, 25816, S
03-Oct-2010
Home
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:34, 25858, S
10-Oct-2010
autumn, rain storms and migrant birds
Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:56, 26190, S
17-Oct-2010
life's transitions
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:50, 26101, S
24-Oct-2010
Scottish poets ancient and modern
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:10, 26407, S
31-Jan-2010 to
24-Oct-2010
25 episodes

11:24:36

2011
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
23-Jan-2011
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:36, 25880, S
30-Jan-2011
TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
28:16, 26515, S
06-Feb-2011 Orpheus
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:48, 26072, S
13-Feb-2011 poetry to stir the senses
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:05, 26339, S
20-Feb-2011 a magical mix of poetry requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:22, 25661, S
27-Feb-2011 consoling poems
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:47, 26057, S
06-Mar-2011 poems that could inspire athletes at the Olympics
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:56, 26198, S
08-May-2011
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:02, 26285, S
15-May-2011 A.E Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad'
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:02, 26292, S
22-May-2011
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:57, 26216, S
29-May-2011 Dawn to Dusk Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:44, 26002, S
05-Jun-2011
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:44, 26003, S
12-Jun-2011 pre-empted by special    
19-Jun-2011 summer poems Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:57, 26206, S
26-Jun-2011
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall   
27:53, 26149, S
03-Jul-2011 listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:58, 26165, S
29-Aug-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:47, 26007, S
04-Sep-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:39, 25876, S
11-Sep-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:22, 25619, S
18-Sep-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:59, 26183, S
25-Sep-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:41, 25907, S
02-Oct-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:04, 26269, S
09-Oct-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:42, 25920, S
16-Oct-2011 Rich autumnal offerings
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:29, 25727, S
23-Oct-2011 listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:23, 25633, S
23-Jan-2011 to
23-Oct-2011
24 episodes

11:06:46

2012
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
08-Jan-2012
Winter, star-gazing and time
Roger McGough
Producer: Toby Field
27:45, 25964, S
15-Jan-2012
red-hot poetry
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:35, 25817, S
22-Jan-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:31, 25756, S
29-Jan-2012 Music and Lyrics Roger McGough
Producer: Toby Field
27:31, 25759, S
05-Feb-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:20, 25579, S
12-Feb-2012
spine chilling poetry
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:56, 26147, S
19-Feb-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:40, 25900, S
26-Feb-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:51, 26067, S
18-Mar-2012 the Radio 4 More than Words listening festival Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:49, 26967, S
13-May-2012
Wendy Cope
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:51, 26060, S
20-May-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:33, 25788, S
27-May-2012 two classic works and readings Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:12, 25463, S
03-Jun-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:04, 26269, S
10-Jun-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:53, 26099, S
17-Jun-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dea
28:04, 26273, S
24-Jun-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dea
27:23, 25631, S
01-Jul-2012 the 200th anniversary of the publication of Byron's Childe Harold
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:28, 25714, S
08-Jul-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:56, 26137, S
26-Aug-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:45, 25964, S
02-Sep-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:00, 26198, S
09-Sep-2012
Welsh poets
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dea
27:28, 25712, S
16-Sep-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:10, 25421, S
23-Sep-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:30, 25744, S
30-Sep-2012
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:40, 25901, S
07-Oct-2012
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
read by Alex Jennings
Roger McGough
produced by Beth O'Dea
27:52, 26079, S
14-Oct-2012 Celebrating the Bicentenary of Edward Lear's Birth Roger McGough
produced by Beatrice Fenton
27:50, 26044, S
09-Dec-2012 Tree poems Roger McGough
produced by Tim Dee
27:14, 25589, S
16-Dec-2012 William Carlos Williams Annie Freud, Roger McGough
produced by Kate Bland
27:43, 25942, S
23-Dec-2012 Christmas poetry Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
28:02, 26236, S
30-Dec-2012 poetry requests on the theme of time Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:43, 25935, S
08-Jan-2012 to
30-Dec-2012
30 episodes

13:49:41
06-Jan-2013
poems that have a musical and satirical theme
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:30, 25739, S
13-Jan-2013
listeners' requests
Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:57, 26162, S
20-Jan-2013 John Keats: 'Isabella, or - the Pot of Basil' Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:28, 25701, S
27-Jan-2013 listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:58, 26174, S
03-Feb-2013 listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:41, 25912, S
10-Feb-2013 the winter of 1963 Roger McGough
produced by Christine Hall
27:49, 26031, S
17-Feb-2013 Liz Lochhead -- Poems for a New Scotland Liz Lochhead
produced by Mark Rikards
27:27, 25687, S

2013
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
28-Apr-2013
feelings other than those that relate to love Roger McGough
produced by Mark Smalley
27:40, 25913, S
05-May-2013
praise to the lowly and the heavenly Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:30, 25755, S
12-May-2013
the national Poetry by Heart competition finals Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:46, 26006, S
19-May-2013
listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:41, 25929, S
26-May-2013
A Bouquet of Flowers Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowery
27:58, 26194, S
02-Jun-2013
Poets reading other poets Roger McGough
produced by Sarah Langan
27:33, 25810, S
09-Jun-2013
listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowery
27:37, 25872, S
16-Jun-2013
listeners' requests Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowery
27:51, 26060, S
23-Jun-2013
Words for weddings and other celebrations
Roger McGough
produced by Mary Ward-Lowery
27:50, 26053, S
30-Jun-2013
Homer Made Anew
Roger McGough
Producer: Tim Dee
27:32, 25772, S
07-Jul-2013
new poems made out of the oldest stories Roger McGough
Producer: Tim Dee
27:45, 25964, S
14-Jul-2013
An Ark of Animal Poems Roger McGough
Producer: Tim Dee
27:40, 25887, S
13-Jan-2013 to
14-Jul-2013
19 episodes

8:45:09

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