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Title: POETRY PLEASE
By: Various Poets, Roger McGough, Anton Lessor
Format: CD-Audio

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ISBN 10: 0571303315
ISBN 13: 9780571303311
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Publisher: FABER & FABER
Pub. date: 18 September, 2014
Edition: Main
Description: BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems. This book presents the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever.
Synopsis: BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: fifty of those poems are read here by Adjoa Andoh and Anton Lesser, both regular voices for the programme. The selection includes poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, G.K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, and W.B. Yeats.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Returns: Returnable
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