Nation's Favourite Poems 1996

Steve Mangan · #1 10-08-2010, 05:24 AM

Currently being repeated on BBC radio in 5 episodes of 15 minutes each.

Episodes available online over the next three to seven days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jrb7

David Landrum · #2 10-08-2010, 12:26 PM

Listened to the first episode. Very nice. Great to see Brits love American an American poet (Frost). "Ozymandias" and "Kubla Khan" are two of my favorites and it was great to hear them read.

dwl

Peter Chipman · #3 10-08-2010, 02:50 PM

Frost was published first in Britain.

David Landrum · #4 10-08-2010, 05:12 PM

Yes. He lived there several years and first got published there.

dwl

Chris Childers · #5 10-08-2010, 07:48 PM

That was great! Kubla Khan and the Darkling Thrush were my favorite readings.

Tim Murphy · #6 10-09-2010, 01:20 AM

I did Kubla Khan and the Intimations Ode when I read at Grasmere to honor the ghosts of the place. Did it from memory. It takes fourteen minutes (eleven for Wordsworth and three for Coleridge) , but I just rememorized the poems for the reading (I've never read from a text.) It's a shame that Coleridge didn't turn into as great a poet as Wordsworth. Blame the opium.
For my failings blame Jack Daniels.

Steve Mangan · #7 10-09-2010, 03:01 AM

Episode 5 is also now online since I posted link yesterday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v4r98

Six days left to listen.

Roger McGough's dramatisation of his poem Summer with Monica is on BBC Radio 7 this afternoon, 13:45 BST - you can listen to it live online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/programmes/schedules