With Great Pleasure - Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale presents his personal choice of poetry and prose
Read by Julie Walters and Michael Angelis
BBC Radio 4 - 1983-09-04
Catechism & Ten Commandments
Sad Aunt Madge by Roger McGough
Little Johnny's confessi
BBC R4 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'
Presented by Roger McGough
Narrated by Trevor Peacock
Produced by Paul Dodgson
Broadcast January 15, 2006
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Special edition of Poetry Please dedicated to
Now here is John Betjeman an English poet. Not only did he write most enjoyable and listenable to poems here in conjunction with Jim Parker you have JB reading his poems with tunes from JP playing through them. I am not sure if the music enhances the
Read more…Roger McGogh - Reading his poems
Here are the four sides of the double tape of Roger McGough reading from his anthology BLAZING FRUITS
from mediafire
Roger Joseph McGough CBE (born 9 November 1937) is a well-known English (Liverpool) perfo
Read more…In this anthology, each poet reads his/her own work. Quite nice.
I've zipped each disk as a separate file. Here's hoping ZIP files work better in Ning-land than RAR files do ...
Everyone knows the Canterbury Tales, so here are other works by Chaucer, read in middle english, as they were written.
First is Anelida & Arcite, whichtells the story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes. It's in a
Live poetry show as Cabaret.
"Dead Poet Slam" - three contemporary poets recite their favorite DPs
Matt Harvey opens with rhythmic, onomatopoeic poem
Read more…The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Robert Browning
With music and songs written and performed by John Harle, lyrics by Joyce Harle, sung by Thomas Platts, head chorister at Canterbury Cathedral with the choir of Wingham School Kent.
Broadcast Mon 26 Dec
A very Merry Christmas to everyone at Past Times.
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This is one of my favorite collections of poetry. I think I can recite more than half the poems from memory.
A Shropshire lad (Unabridged)
A. E. Houseman
Read by Samuel West
The book
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three po
Bongo!
Before Maynard G. Krebs grew his beard,
before Dr. Feynmann played after physics conferences,
before the neo-hippies joined the drum circles,
there was the calypso bongo jam.
Sparrow recounts the story of a life-and-death
bongo dance competi
Read more…Somewhere in Finnegans Wake, St Patrick meets a druid and is converted.
Here are some Joyce-related files on my drive, except the one I was looking for:
Milo O'Shea reading "Shem the Penman (chapter 7 of Finnegans Wake)" with
Siobhán McKenna reading t
Gillian Clarke reads from her journal about life in rural Wales. Clarke is the National Poet of Wales. BBC Afternoon Reading.
Read more…The Complete Burns, a three-year audio archive project, aims to record all of the 600 works of Burns.
Readers include HRH Prince Charles, Robert Carlyle, Hannah Gordon, Bill Paterson and Robbie Coltrane.
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Bespoken Word
BBC Radio 4
27 Oct - 8 Dec 2010
[b]Episode 1 - Kate Tempest[/b] (27 Oct 2010)
Bespoken Word returns for a new series with a bang.
The first episode features current star performance poet, Kate Tempest. It's not hard to see why this former wi
Lunch Poems
BBC Radio 4
21 Nov 2010
The poet Frank O'Hara was at the very centre of the explosion in New York's artistic life that took place in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.
Friend and champion of Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock and de Ko
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught
The Gate of the Year
Broadcast Sun 19 Dec 2010, 16:30
A programme from Adventures in Poetry
160/44; 32.1 MB; sound quality excellent
The Gate of the Year: Peggy Reynolds hears the story behind the poem King George VI quoted in his first Christmas broad
The Man with the Blue Guitar
Broadcast Sat 6 Nov 2010, Radio 3, Between the Ears
160/44; 33.8 MB; sound quality excellent
Wallace Stevens and Pablo Picasso were two great modernists who had much incommon: rather than representing the world in their
