Poetry Please | Sonnet 116 (1997)
Sonnet 116
Selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners. Adrian Henri rounds up the month's Merseyside requests with teachers and pupils taking part in a poetry project on the Wirral. These include Echo & Narcissus by Joyce Smith read by Kate Fitzgerald, Vegan delight by Benjamin Zephaniah in a commercial reading by the poet, Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister by Robert Browning in a commercial reading by James Mason, Stop all the clocks by W. H. Auden read by Kate Fitzgerald, Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare read by John Burgess, Ozymandias by Shelley read by John Burgess and Autobiography (extract) by Adrian Henri read by the poet.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Sonnets and Poems
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 19'32''
- Broadcast date: 1997
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
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