Poetry Please - The End of Summer
Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please: The End of Summer presented by Roger McGough. From 2007.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s poetry archive and selects Poetry Please: The End of Summer.
Roger McGough presents poems on themes reflecting summer's end such as enjoying the garden, working the land and preparing for the inevitable return to school.
He also looks at a collection of artwork drawn especially for him by a class of primary school pupils who were inspired by one of his own poems.
Poems included:
* The Writer of This Poem by Roger McGough
* Warning by Kate Scott
* Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
* Scenes from Childhood by Charles Causley
* First Day by Charles Causley
* From The Land by Vita Sackville-West
* The Wishing Tree by Kathleen Jamie
* Garden in Progress by Berthold Brecht, translated by John Willett
* Towards the End of Summer by Jenny Joseph
* First Day at School by Roger McGough
Producer: Christine Hall
First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in 2007.
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