Michael Morpurgo
Roger鈥檚 guest is children鈥檚 writer Michael Morpurgo. His choices reflect a deep love of rural life and also include moving reflections on war, and peace. Including poetry by Ted Hughes, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon and Raymond Briggs.
Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
By Sean Rafferty
From the CD In Tune with the World 鈥� The Poetry of Sean Rafferty
Label: Farms for City Children
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Extract from Dart
By Alice Oswald
From Dart
Published by Faber & Faber
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My Own True Family
By Ted Hughes
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
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Yew and Me
By Michael Morpurgo
From My Heart Was a Tree: Poems and Stories to Celebrate Trees
Published by Two Hoots
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Extract from Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas
From Dylan Thomas 鈥� The Poems
Published by J.M Dent & Sons Ltd
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In Memoriam Easter 1915
By Edward Thomas
From Edward Thomas 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
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By Eleanor Farjeon
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Aunties
By Raymond Briggs
From Only Remembered
Published by Corgi Childrens
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The Tall Ships
By Valerie Bloom
From Hot Like Fire and other poems
Published by Bloomsbury
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Call Me World
By Roger McGough
As yet unpublished
(Written for an exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool of Ukrainian photographers)
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Let There be Peace
By Lemn Sissay
From Listener
Published by Canongate Books
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Broadcasts
- Sun 25 Jun 2023 16:30麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
- Sun 2 Jul 2023 00:15麻豆社 Radio 4