• Poetry Please

  • By: Adjoa Andoh
  • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
  • Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Poetry Please

By: Adjoa Andoh
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
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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 the country's 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: 50 of those poems are read here by Adjoa Andoh and Anton Lesser, both regular voices for the programme. The selection includes poems 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

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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.

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