Poetry Please

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.
The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever. This selection of fifty poems includes works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, and W.B. Yeats.

Public Domain (P)2014 Faber Audio

Wonderful collection beautifully read

What a wonderful collection. Beautifully read by Adjoa Andoh. And that silky smooth voice and subtle emotion of Anton Lesser. I could listen to him reading poetry all day.

Listen for Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser is amazing at reading poetry, as always. The unimportant woman reads her pieces badly and shows she doesn't understand how enjambment works. No surprise when you look her up.