Five to Eleven | Philippa Urquhart
Sonnet 104
Poetry or prose readings, read this week by guest presenter Philippa Urquhart who reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 104.
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Poetry Please | Sonnet 104
Simon Rae's guest Jilly Cooper chooses poems about love, loss and dashing romantic heroes. This episode includes Song by W. H. Auden read by Gareth Owen, The pity of love by W. B. Yeats and read by Rosemary Leach, The night piece, to Julia by Robert Herrick and read by Sally Cookson, Sonnet 104 by William Shakespeare read by Gareth Owen, Poem for an adopted child by Anon read by Jilly Cooper, Tell me not here by A. E. Housman read by Rosemary Leach, The flower by George Herbert read by Jilly Cooper, Juliet by Hilaire Belloc read by Jilly Cooper, The lady of Shalott (extract) by Tennyson read by Jilly Cooper and Lochnivar by Sir Walter Scott and read by Sally Cookson.
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Roger McGough introduces some of the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, plus a selection from some other 17th-century masters: John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Henry Vaughan.