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Secrets

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests on the theme of secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name.

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests on the theme of Secrets, partly inspired by Helen Dunmore's 1995 collection of the same name. With poems by Seamus Heaney, Blake Morrison and G K Chesterton dealing with the subject, the programme features an interview with a poet; Don Paterson OBE and a priest; Father Christopher Hilton.
Readers are Pippa Haywood and Anton Lesser.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Jun 2017 23:30

This Week's Poems

Russian Doll

By Helen Dunmore

From Secrets

Published by Bodley Head Children鈥檚 Books, Random House

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Heiss mich nicht redden / Bid me be silent

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Translated by AS Kleine

Taken from

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Winter My Secret

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti - Poems and Prose

Published by Everyman

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To The Secret Rose

By WB Yeats

Taken from

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Punishment

By Seamus Heaney

From Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996

Published by Faber & Faber

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Xerox

By Blake Morrison

From Volume 1 of Penguin Modern Poets

Published by Penguin

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Extract from The Secret People

By GK Chesterton

From The Collected Poems of G K Chesterton

Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd

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Confession

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Mean Time

Published by Picador

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True Confessions

By Liz Lochhead

From True Confessions and New Cliches

Published by Polygon

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The White Lie

By Don Paterson

From Landing Light

Published by Faber & Faber

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Pippa Haywood
Reader Anton Lesser
Producer Sarah Addezio

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Jun 2017 16:30
  • Sat 24 Jun 2017 23:30