At the Hay Festival
Roger McGough is joined by Alistair McGowan, actor, comedian, impressionist, poetry-writer - at the Hay Festival.
A special edition recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival.
Roger McGough celebrates the show with a selection of the most requested poems on Poetry Please sprinkled with a few of his own. He鈥檚 joined by impressionist, actor and comedian Alistair McGowan who also writes poetry. Expect a journey through some of the nation鈥檚 favourite poems as well as a few laughs as well as some unexpected 鈥榞uest appearances鈥� courtesy of Alistair.
Producer: Maggie Ayre for 麻豆社 Audio, Bristol.
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To Poetry Please by Roger McGough
From Poetry Please听
Published by Faber & Faber
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Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
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Published by Faber & Faber
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Girl from a Train by Gareth Owen
From The Fox on the Roundabout
Published by Macmillan Children's Books听
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Old Papers by Alistair McGowan
(Unpublished)
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
From Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
Published by Macmillan & Co.
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I So Liked Spring by Charlotte Mew
From Selected Poetry and Prose
Published by Faber & Faber
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The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
From Thomas Hardy (Faber Nature Poets)
Published by Faber & Faber
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Daffodils by William Wordsworth
From Selected Poems
Published by MacMillan
Response to Wordsworth鈥檚 Daffodils (no title given) by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
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The Bright Field by RS Thomas
From Laboratories of the Spirit
Published by Macmillan
The Tyger by William Blake
From Selected Poems 鈥� William Blake听
Published by Penguin Classics
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Radio 3 by Alistair McGowan
(Unpublished)
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I will not be a wimp by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
From Collected Poems听
Published by Vintage
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Call Me World by Roger McGough
(Unpublished)
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- Tue 9 Jun 2026 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4