Poetry Please | Sonnet 116 (2000)
Sonnet 116
Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. Frank Delaney talks to anthology editors Christopher Ricks and Jo Shapcott and introduces listeners' requests for favourite poems from the volume they have compiled. These include Not waving but drowning by Stevie Smith in an archive reading by the poet, Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare read by Tim Pigott-Smith, I am by John Clare read by Samuel West, Tichborne's elegy by Chidiock Tichborne read by Tim Pigott-Smith, Death be not proud by John Donne read by Samuel West, Ulysses by Tennyson read by Tim Pigott-Smith, Remembrance by Emily Bronte read by Alice Arnold, Goat by Jo Shapcott read by the poet, Being a wife by Selima Hill read by the poet, Lily pond by Vicki Feaver read by the poet and The season of phantasmal peace by Derek Walcott in an archive reading by the poet.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Sonnets and Poems
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 28'00''
- Broadcast date: 2000
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. Palgrave's Golden Treasury, first published 130 years ago, has been a favourite with poetry readers ever since. Gareth Owen meets the current editor, John Press, who has updated Francis Turner Palgrave's original anthology. This episode includes Break break break by Tennyson read by Brian Gear, Let me not the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare read by Sally Cookson, A vision by John Clare read by Brian Gear, Photograph of haymaker, 1890 by Molly Holden read by Sally Cookson, Ambulances by Philip Larkin in a commercial recording by the poet, Hospital for defectives by Thomas Blackburn read by Brian Gear, St George and the villagers by Dick Davies read by Brian Gear and Somewhere along the line by Simon Armitage, read by the poet.
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